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There’s not much more than the train tracks and a McDonalds in the small American town of East Palestine, Ohio. In early February, a freight train full of cancer-causing chemicals crashed on the track. It is a tragedy for the approximately 5,000 inhabitants of eastern Palestine.

For Donald Trump, it’s an opportunity to his liking. That’s why the ex-president flew to Ohio in his private Boeing on Wednesday. At the burger joint, he ordered a round of Big Macs for the local fire department, the first responders to the disaster. “I probably know this menu better than all of you,” Trump said. He donated 13 pallets full of water bottles for the other residents. His name is on the labels. “Trump Spring Water” for the Forgotten of Eastern Palestine.

What is happening in eastern Palestine this Wednesday is an impressive demonstration of why Donald Trump is still so successful. With the simplest means and a good dose of populism, he manages to win over people and the media. It matters not at all what he would have done as president for those affected.

For example, when Trump is asked why he reversed the Obama administration’s stricter freight train braking rules, he remains tight-lipped. “I had nothing to do with it,” he says. He thinks it’s more important that the burgers are ready for the fire department. He interrupts the questioning reporter and shouts past him into the room: “Enjoy your meal!”. Then he goes to the checkout.

Joe Biden as traitor

It’s a small gesture with a big impact. The people of eastern Palestine are grateful. And Trump wouldn’t be Trump if he didn’t come up with a political framework. In his press appearance, he describes the local population as “victims of the betrayal of Joe Biden”. For days he, the Republicans and especially his son Donald Trump Jr., who traveled with him, drum up a story in the media that is intended to portray the American president as a traitor to the people.

Instead of handling the chemical accident domestically and showing up on the scene, Joe Biden flew to Ukraine and distributed hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money there, Trump’s son tweeted to his nearly ten million followers. Before a war, more and more people in America think it’s not theirs. Far-right Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene even went so far as to describe Putin’s illegal war of aggression in Ukraine as “Biden’s war” in a tweet.

“President Trump is visiting the people of East Palestine, Ohio, to bring them water and supplies, while Joe Biden is only concerned with inciting more war and funneling more American funds to Ukraine,” Taylor Greene wrote. “Thank you, President Trump, for continuing to show what America First looks like.” This lecture has already caught on with the mayor of Eastern Palestine. In an interview with Fox News, Trent Conaway said Biden’s visit to Ukraine was the “biggest slap in the face” to his community.

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It almost seems as if the big American politicians have taken the advertising slogan of the small town in the US state of Ohio to heart. “Welcome to Eastern Palestine, the place you want to be,” says the 4,700-strong community’s website. Suddenly everyone really wants to go there, well-known environmental activist Erin Brockovich and even Biden’s Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who has been behaving disastrously on communications for weeks, want to travel to the small town on Thursday.

But against Trump and his hands-on approach, Buttigieg looks weak. Trump finds it easy to show closeness to the people with a large portion of burgers. Buttigieg dodges. The day before he boarded his plane, Pete Buttigieg was asked about the accident by a reporter for the right-wing news outlet Daily Caller as he was walking with his husband in downtown Washington.

He asked her to leave him alone, took a picture of her and said he now had “private time”. When the journalist who was filming released a video of the confrontation, the next communications disaster was complete. Tenor of the criticism: instead of ultimately solving the catastrophe personally, Buttigieg retreats into private life.

Trump in eastern Palestine then had only to say to the cameras: “Buttigieg should have been here a long time ago”. If he comes now, he will come after Trump. Buttigieg will hardly respond enthusiastically. And he probably won’t buy burgers either. But caring also means showing small gestures of appreciation.

You don’t care because that part of the country is politically lost to you anyway. This brings back memories of Hillary Clinton and her comment about Trump’s voters being pathetic, pathetic. JD Vance, on the other hand, Trump’s newly elected senator for Ohio, is considered a commonsense and has also come to eastern Palestine. “The most important thing” now, he said, is that the people here will not forget the next two years. He thanked Trump and his son. “It’s good you’re here.”

The EPA environmental agency was also on the scene in eastern Palestine and has now ordered the Norfolk Southern Railway company responsible to pay for the repair of the damage. But the government in Washington can’t allay public health concerns about the contaminated soil. Trump’s drinking water is literally grist to the mill of these concerns.

The anger of the mayor of eastern Palestine seems somewhat subdued. If Joe Biden shows up here now, he’s “not going to send him away,” Trent Conaway said at Trump’s press appearance. And then he made it clear what really matters to him: “We don’t want to be used as political pawns”. It doesn’t matter in whose favor the political game ends at the scene of the Ohio accident: Trump was the first to act.

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