The Show Must Go On: Trump’s Texas Flood Tour

How a tragedy that swept away children became another stage for self-congratulation, grievance politics, and photo ops psychopathy, televised.

Donald Trump swept into Kerrville today for what was ostensibly a visit to console flood-ravaged Texans but quickly became another episode of Donald Trump: The Disaster Tourist Chronicles. As Trump himself put it, he’s “gone to a lot of hurricanes, a lot of tornadoes,” but “never seen anything like this.” Which, if you’ve listened to a single Trump pres…