Former President Donald Trump announced Monday that he has spoken to Elon Musk about providing his satellite broadband company, Starlink, to communities impacted by Hurricane Helene.
At least 100 people were killed after the brutal storm made landfall late Thursday, with hundreds of water rescues taking place in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia. Over 2 million homes and businesses were still without power throughout the Southeast Monday, and hundreds of thousands of people remained without internet.
“I just spoke to Elon. We want to get Starlink hooked up because they have no communication whatsoever,” Trump said during a press conference in Valdosta, Georgia.
“Elon will always come through. We know that.”
Many towns across the southeast are without internet because fiber optic lines were damaged and cell towers knocked offline. Starlink, the only high-bandwidth internet system covering the entire planet, would allow people in these blackout zones to access the internet.
Trump traveled to Valdosta, Georgia, Monday afternoon to survey the damage from Hurricane Helene and deliver relief materials such as food, water and fuel.
In a post on X Monday morning, Trump said he wanted to stop in storm-ravaged North Carolina too, as he has “a lot of supplies ready for them,” but because access and communication there are now restricted, his team felt it was better to “make sure that Local Emergency Management is able to focus on helping the people most affected, and not being concerned with me.”
Trump promised to get to North Carolina “shortly,” and added that he didn’t like the reports he was hearing about “the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.”
Trump said he was working with evangelist Franklin Graham’s relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, to bring truckloads of supplies to the region.
As the Southeast was grappling with catastrophic flooding driven by the hurricane, Joe Biden spent the weekend relaxing at his beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, and Kamala Harris continued campaigning, attending two fundraisers in California on Saturday, and holding a rally in Las Vegas Sunday night.
Biden delivered remarks Monday morning on the regime’s response, telling reporters he would likely be visiting affected areas later this week. When asked why he and Harris were not in Washington D.C. commanding the response to the hurricane disaster, Biden answered tersely that he “was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well.”
Harris posted a photo of herself last night allegedly getting briefed on “the latest developments about the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene” while traveling on Air Force Two.
As others have pointed out, the papers on her table appeared to be blank and the wired headphones were not plugged into her phone.
Update:
Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, who has been delivering supplies and picking up people in North Carolina with his own helicopter, announced Monday evening that Musk had donated 500
Starlink kits to the recovery effort, and he would be receiving them Tuesday morning at 5:00 AM. Biffle said he would then immediately fly them out on his helicopters to areas in Western North Carolina.
After years of lawfare against Musk and his companies, the Biden regime announced Monday that it would install 30 Starlink kits to help those affected by Hurricane Helene.
“Today, FEMA will install 30 Starlink receivers in Western North Carolina to provide immediate connectivity for those in greatest need,” said FEMA Director Deanne Criswell at the White House press briefing Monday.
At 12:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, Musk posted on X: “Since the Hurricane Helene disaster, SpaceX has sent as many Starlink terminals as possible to help areas in need. Earlier today,
@realDonaldTrump alerted me to additional people who need Starlink Internet in North Carolina. We are sending them terminals right away.”
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