President Donald Trump is making good on his campaign promise to help East Palestine, Ohio recover from the devastating 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment that the Biden administration shamefully ignored for weeks while focusing on Ukraine instead of Americans in crisis.
Senior Trump administration officials acknowledge that full recovery will take years, but the contrast with Biden's callous response couldn't be more stark. While Biden was busy sending billions overseas, East Palestine families were left to deal with toxic chemicals, contaminated water, and dead animals on their own.
Trump made the derailment a centerpiece of his 2024 campaign, repeatedly highlighting how the previous administration failed these hardworking Ohio families when they needed help most. Unlike Biden, who took weeks to even acknowledge the disaster, Trump visited East Palestine during the crisis and promised real action.
Biden's Shameful Neglect vs. Trump's Leadership
The February 2023 derailment released toxic chemicals into the air, soil, and water supply, creating a public health nightmare that demanded immediate federal action. Instead, residents watched in disgust as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg worried more about diversity quotas than transportation safety.
"The people of East Palestine deserved better than being treated like second-class citizens by the Biden regime," one local resident said. "President Trump actually cares about American communities, not just his globalist agenda."
Trump's commitment to East Palestine represents everything his America First agenda stands for - putting American families and communities ahead of foreign interests and woke priorities.
While recovery will take time, Trump's swift action stands in sharp contrast to Biden's pattern of abandoning American communities in crisis. From the Afghanistan withdrawal disaster to the East Palestine toxic spill, Biden consistently failed when leadership mattered most.
Now East Palestine has a president who actually puts America First. The question remains: how many other communities did Biden abandon that Trump will now have to rescue?