After the Trump Administration released a budget proposal for 2018 early Thursday, the media threw a fit at the suggested cuts to programs like the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of Health. ABC and NBC’s evening news programs Thursday even hyped that the poor and those suffering from cancer would be hurt the most by the proposed cuts. Journalists also took to Twitter to express their dismay and outrage at the budget for daring to redistribute spending on these programs to national security.
The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof probably had the funniest, completely serious take:
Reading through the Trump budget, I feel as the Romans must have felt in 456 AD as the barbarians conquered and ushered in the dark ages.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) March 16, 2017
Conservatives on Twitter responded with mockery:
These jaw-dropping cuts would send America back to the dark ages of...2013. I don't know how we'll survive. https://t.co/rVSumpVqv8
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 16, 2017
@NickKristof Reducing the size of government by 10% is exactly the same as an encroaching horde of Vandals looting the land.
— Razor (@hale_razor) March 16, 2017
Kristof has a history of making hyperbolic statements. On the day of Trump’s inauguration, the reporter was wailing about how much he missed the “cool” Obama already. During the Syrian refugee crisis, he blamed the U.S. for not opening it’s borders wholeheartedly, likening it to the Holocaust.
