Heckuva time to make an appearance: Trump's FEMA chief drops in on Texas flood zone

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rachel Maddow introduces viewers to the unfamiliar image of Donald Trump's pick to lead FEMA, David Richardson, who finally made an appearance in Texas more than a week after flooding killed scores of people.

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0:00.0	Really happy to have you here.
0:02.3	You ready?
0:03.8	Pop quiz.
0:06.3	Who is this man?
0:10.3	Who is this man?
0:12.1	There's several men in this picture.
0:14.4	Can we zoom in, please, on the man in question.
0:18.9	Ah.
0:20.0	Now, I know what you're thinking.
0:21.6	You're thinking, Matto, honestly, can you please not zoom in any further?
0:26.6	I get it. I get it. You're talking about the Saturday Night Fever guy here. We don't need to see this any closer. We understand.
0:34.6	Okay. I get it.
0:38.1	How about a different view?
0:39.8	Same guy.
0:41.1	Same number of buttons.
0:43.3	But you are perhaps not as distressed by that in this picture,
0:47.4	because it's very hard not to focus in this picture on the hat.
0:52.0	And actually, this one, it gets worse if you zoom out rather than zoom in. Somehow the hat
0:57.2	actually gets worse and more alarming when you see it in a broader context. Usually getting
1:02.9	closer makes things worse, but in this case, something about the hat and maybe the shoes,
1:07.8	I don't know, maybe just the contrast with the normal person standing next to him,
1:11.1	I don't know, I don't know. Somehow worse, wider. Do you know who this person is? It's okay if you
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