“They’re applauding ripping food out of people’s mouths to fund their tax cuts for billionaires,” McBride wrote on social media.
USDA data released ahead of Trump’s speech shows that around 696,000 fewer people received SNAP benefits in November 2025 compared to the previous month.
I have written about this before, but this is similar to the time I was the most confused and insulted in my professional life.
Early last year, I attended a mandatory company event, it was mostly about the C-suit spoke about how great they were and the peons applauding, eh standard stuff.
Then came a guest speaker…
His entire talk was about how he had moved jobs from high earning countries to low earning countries, he did that on a stage infront of high earners in a high income country.
And we were expected to applaud him.
I was shocked at the insanity of it all, and how almost no one in the audience had the decency of looking uncomfortable.
This is the same, they are talking about taking food from people to make their already privileged life even more privileged.
And the crowd applauding doesn’t realize that the defining line for who will be included isn’t static, under the current regime it is a ratchet.