Trump Admin Offers 'Depression Meal' as Cost of Living Soars, But War Budgets Thrive
Brooke Rollins, identified by The Independent as Trump's former agriculture secretary (though she was actually Director of the Domestic Policy Council), casually offered 'a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla and one other thing' as a viable meal recommendation. Meanwhile, the very administration this comment emerged from, and subsequent ones, consistently greenlight colossal
budgets for military aid and interventions abroad. For context: in 2019, under the Trump administration, the US provided $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel, a figure that has seen bipartisan support continue. That's $3.8 billion to a foreign military, yet for struggling Americans, the advice is to get creative with corn tortillas. One might ask if the food pyramid's 'upside down' status is
merely a reflection of federal spending priorities. It appears the nation can always find the funds for the latest F-35 fighter jet, or to subsidize defense contractors through foreign aid, but suggesting living wages or affordable healthcare becomes an 'impossible' fiscal challenge. The irony isn't just that the 'depression meal' reflects economic hardship, but that the architects of these
policies are often the same ones funneling billions to industries that don't feed a single American family. Perhaps if 'chicken, broccoli, and a corn tortilla' were manufactured by Lockheed Martin, they'd find themselves a permanent line item in the federal budget.