Why did Trump go to East Palestine? To pretend to be the guy who cares about East Palestine and the people who live there and the people who live in all the places like East Palestine.

Donald Trump is visiting the small Ohio town reeling from the toxic fallout of a Norfolk Southern Corp. train derailment in the hope of capitalizing politically on residents’ anger about the initial response by the Biden administration. But the trip also highlights the ex-president’s rolling back of rules that former regulators say could have improved rail safety.

He bragged constantly about getting rid of all the pesky regulations, as if they were swarms of gnats as opposed to measures to protect human health and the environment, protect worker and consumer safety, and protect people from industrial accidents and disasters like DERAILMENTS OF TRAINS CARRYING DANGEROUS FREIGHT.

The way he talked, along with the rest of the Capitalism Unleashed crowd, you’d think regulations existed just to annoy everyone. Bring on the toxic explosions, yeah?!