Trump 2.0 American Death Count

[ancianita]

Last edited Mon Jul 14, 2025, 12:45 PM - Edit history (4)

Fascism's death toll: 490 deaths in 175 days.

Numbers below are from disasters for now, and
from the gop/proj2025 big ugly law later.
Much appreciated if DU'ers post brand new disaster numbers or corrections.
These are current counts by Google AI with sourcing.

Deaths in the US during Donald Trump's second term in 2025:

Texas Flooding: At least 132 people, including 36 children, died in catastrophic flash flooding in the Hill Country region of Texas around July 4th, with 160 still missing as of July 11th, according to PBS. President Trump visited the area to survey the damage and defended the state and federal response.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Central_Texas_floods
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-tours-catastrophic-flood-damage-in-central-texas-defends-state-and-federal-response

Central and Southern US Storms: at least 42 deaths across eight states, with Missouri recording the most fatalities (13), followed by Kansas (8) and Alabama (3), according to U.S. News & World Report. This storm system included over 550 tornado warnings and 300 flash flood warnings.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/kansas/articles/2025-03-17/a-look-at-the-deaths-linked-to-severe-storms-in-the-us

Appalachian Flooding: Flash flooding and tornadoes ... 18 deaths, including 24 in Kentucky, 3 in West Virginia, and 1 in Georgia, according to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2025_North_American_storm_complex

Central US Tornado Outbreak: at least 28 people across several states, including 23 in Kentucky, 5 in Missouri (including 3 children), and 2 in Virginia, according to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. Tornado sirens reportedly failed to ring in St. Louis ahead of an EF-3 tornado.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/dozen-people-dead-states-storms-hold-americas-heartland/story?id=121901123

US Tornado Outbreak: At least 42 people died in a tornado outbreak across eight states in March, according to CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/weather/storm-tornado-outbreak-fire-climate-hnk

Louisiana Wildfires: 30 deaths and the destruction of more than 15,000 homes and businesses, according to the Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-09/california-texas-flooding

Deadly Aviation Crashes: at least 188 deaths from 60 deadly aviation crashes in the United States so far in 2025, resulting in , according to FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth.
https://www.fox4news.com/news/deadly-plane-crashes-2025-timeline

These disasters have tested the nation's disaster response capabilities amidst concerns about funding cuts and staffing reductions at federal agencies like the National Weather Service and FEMA.

More later as effects of the gop/project 2025 big ugly law occur after its rollout.

[FirstLight]

1. Also, we don't know the number of Americans who cold have died in custody of ICE

I'm sure there's some...

[flying_wahini]

3. Probably hundreds that will never be identified.

[ancianita]

4. Exactly. We know that we won't know the truth until this administration is over and states' numbers are confirmed.

But right now, we're looking at deaths that could have been much lower if not completely prevented by keeping governmental air traffic, weather, and other safety systems in place.

[Bayard]

2. Add in 24 deaths from our last big flood here in KY

[ancianita]

5. Okay. Do you have at least one source? Because 14 have been listed & sourced above so far.

[Bayard]

8. Sorry, here you go

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2025/03/03/kentucky-feb-2025-flooding-death-toll-at-24-gov-andy-beshear-says/81232910007/

This is from March.

[ancianita]

10. Thanks! So I'll change the KY number. The running total at the top is revised, too.

As far as I'm concerned, and as things go forward, keeping a total death count on poorly handled disasters can be attributable at the very least to being "on his watch."

[jmbar2]

6. Really important data - many thanks

Wish we could get a website with a counter similar to the national debt with this data.

Deaths from termination of USAID will be staggering, but getting confirmed data would be difficult.

[ancianita]

7. Agree. YW.

Here's something similar re the national debt... https://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html

I think it used to be USAID that was our only source of numbers of people helped, and there's no way of knowing the actual deaths directly resulting from USAID's withdrawal, because people helped doesn't automatically equate with people now not helped, numbers which likely grow with growing refugee populations, anyway.

These days, if we keep numbers at all, we only have credibility within and outside our country when we stick to our own numbers as reported and confirmed by journalists.