No one plays the “blame game” better than the Washington Post.
President Donald Trump’s foreign aid pause “stranded lifesaving drugs,” the Washington Post claims. “Children died waiting.”
A fairly accusatory account of events. To “strand” someone or something is malevolently connoted. The Washington Post suggests Trump, and the taxpayer, have inherited paternalistic obligations to Africa on account of … precedent? (RELATED: Federal Judge Rejects Union Bid To Halt USAID Dismantling)
The Post continues.
Taxpayer funded antimalarial medicine “arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December. But upheaval from the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze delayed its delivery from a regional warehouse to local health clinics. As a result, when 5-year-old Suza Kenyaba contracted malaria, the medicine was not available. She died on Feb. 19.”
AOC: “Donald Trump decided one day that he wants to just make sure that kids are dying because they don’t have access to insurance.”
This again. Wasn’t everyone already supposed to be dead when NPR and USAID got defunded? pic.twitter.com/aSR2hwfp96
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 1, 2025
That medicine was “a little more than seven miles away” from Kenyaba, according to the Post.
Hm.
Seven miles is walking distance. What did communication look like between that regional warehouse and the local health clinic?
Some interrogation of Congolese management style seems especially warranted, given the medicine reportedly arrived in December.
Trump, you’ll recall, took office Jan. 20. On inauguration day, he ordered a 90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance programs, including those managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
🚨SCOOP: USAID shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents. pic.twitter.com/XUVAkZp16y
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 8, 2025
Antimalarial medicine “hadn’t reached the clinic where [Kenyaba] was being treated because President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign aid had thrown supply chains into chaos,” the Washington Post claims.
One would imagine the chaos would start at the top of the supply chain, not the bottom. Trump’s freeze certainly might have stymied overseas distribution.
Consider the circumstances the Washington Post presents. The antimalarial medicine had already been supplied (by American taxpayers). The medicine was less than ten miles away from its final destination. There’s a few missing details in this story.
Not that providing necessary (and potentially Trump-exculpatory) details is the Washington Post’s purview.
Their job is to remind Americans that we’re obligated to ship our money overseas without questioning where, exactly, it’s going. It’s your moral duty to fund transgender representation in Peruvian comic books. And sensitivity training for employed Serbian homophobes. (RELATED: ‘The DNA Of Our Foreign Policy’: How USAID Hid Behind Humanitarianism To Export Radical Left-Wing Priorities Abroad)
Outrageous examples aside, when did Americans assume the moral duty to pay for the world’s medicine?
When a little girl in a foreign country dies seven miles away from the medicine that might’ve saved her life, shouldn’t that be an indictment of that foreign country?
Not in WaPo’s world. It’s just too tempting to blame Trump.
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