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Houston mayoral appointee melts down over 'whites-only' Camp Mystic while blaming Trump for 'extremely preventable' flood tragedy

Houston mayoral appointee melts down over 'whites-only' Camp Mystic while blaming Trump for 'extremely preventable' flood tragedy

Daily Mail​17 hours ago
A Houston mayoral appointee went ballistic by criticizing a Texas camp site where seven little girls perished in floodwaters - then blaming President Donald Trump for the tragedy.
In a series of cruel videos, Sade Perkins vented her frustrations against the 'whites only Christian camp' hours after a heavy deluge ripped through Camp Mystic in Hunt on the Fourth of July.
'I know I'm going to get cancelled for this, but Camp Mystic is a white-only girls' Christian camp,' she raged on TikTok as at least nine girls were still missing.
'They don't even have a token Asian. They don't have a token Black person. It's an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp.'
Perkins was admonished by Houston Mayor John Whitmire, who said he would take steps to remove her from the board.
However, she doubled down by blaming Trump, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick for the tragedy, describing it as 'totally preventable.'
She complained she had become 'the scapegoat to cover up for the f***up of a flood', instead arguing the 'reason' for the natural disaster was 'of course your friendly MAGA Trump up there in the White House.'
'I did not cause the flood, nor did I cause the failure from the National Weather Service and FEMA. Those were done by design, by the Lieutenant, and by the Governor, and your f***ing President,' she said.
Perkins was admonished by Mayor Whitmire, who issued a statement apologizing for the horrifying comments as the death toll rose to 82, including 23 children and seven girls from the summer camp.
Sade Perkins vented her frustrations against the 'whites only Christian camp' hours after a heavy deluge ripped through Camp Mystic in Hunt on the Fourth of July
'The comments shared on social media are deeply inappropriate and have no place in decent society, especially as families grieve the confirmed deaths and the ongoing search for the missing,' Whitmire said.
'The individual who made these statements is not a City of Houston employee. She was appointed to the City's Food Insecurity Board by former Mayor Sylvester Turner in 2024, and her term expired in January 2025.'
Whitmire said steps were being taken immediately 'to remove her permanently from the board' and vowed he 'has no plans to reappoint her.'
But Perkins had no regrets after being publicly scolded by the mayor on Sunday, instead doubling down on her extraordinary attack on the camp.
'You people are f**king crazy, you people are insane,' she said of her critics. 'And the video is still up and I still stand behind - 10 toes down on the motherf***ing ground.
'That s**t is racism and white supremacy, period.
'If it was Hispanic kids, if it was LGBTQ kids that got swept away y'all wouldnt give a f**k and them same MAGA people would be saying they deserve it and that it's God's will, so f**k all y'all.'
Addressing Mayor Whitmire's comments head-on, Perkins said: 'Mayor Whitmire is a piece of s**t.'
Her extraordinary comments come as Nim Kidd, Chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, advised Kerr County to brace for more of the deadly rains as a 'wall of water' is set to descend upon the flood ravaged region.
Locals in central Texas are being urged to scramble to higher ground following further flash flood warnings as a result of further rain falling on saturated ground.
Camp Mystic director Richard 'Dick' Eastland, 70, was among the casualties. He died while trying to rescue campers from the biblical rushing waters as they struck his grounds.
Renee Smajstrla, eight, Janie Hunt, nine, and Alabama native Sarah Marsh, 8, all perished when the camp was washed away by the flood waters.
Best friends Lila Bonner, 9, and Eloise Peck, 8, were also killed in the devastating flooding.
The bodies of Anna Margaret Bellows, 8, Lainey Landry, 9, and camp counselor Chloe Childress were recovered on Sunday evening.
At least nine girls remain missing after the Guadalupe River flooded and surged by up to 30 feet above its usual water level Friday.
The camp director's wife, Tweety, was found safe at their home. The Eastlands have owned and operated Camp Mystic since 1974, and many viewed him as a father figure at the camp.
Search and rescue workers dig through debris looking for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding
'It doesn't surprise me at all that his last act of kindness and sacrifice was working to save the lives of campers,' The Kerrville Daily Times guest columnist Paige Sumner said in a tribute to Eastland.
Governor Abbott said the banks of the Guadalupe River, where some 750 girls had been staying when the floodwaters hit, had been 'horrendously ravaged in ways unlike I've seen in any natural disaster.'
'The height the rushing water reached to the top of the cabins was shocking,' he said on X after visiting the camp on Saturday.
Photos show the summer camp was destroyed after the deadly floodwaters wrecked the grounds.
Windows in the cabins were shattered and the interiors were completely covered in mud, with campers belongings in disarray.
Camp Mystic was due to celebrate its hundredth year, and has a long and illustrious history as the camp of choice for well-off families in Texas.
The daughter of multiple governors and former First Lady Laura Bush are just some of the alumni.
Nine-year-old Janie Hunt, who perished in the floods, was the great-granddaughter of late billionaire William Herbert Hunt, whose brother was the founder of the Kansas City Chiefs.
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