Their actions are beyond the pale when it comes to serving the best interests of first responders.

The entirety of their gimmick to ‘support’ first responders or veteran groups is to purchase trendy merchandising to show how supportive they are.

It’s gross. It’s reprehensible. It’s deceitful.

an example I saw on my timeline this afternoon is from the midwest. They had a list of things they suggested people donate, or cash to help buy these things. The comment was: "This is being coordinated 100% by a great man from our local community to directly impact his family and their friends that were effected by this disaster. No fema, no red cross, nothing but people directly helping people."

^^ There is nothing wrong with helping your family and friends. But to encourage the community to help you in this effort and use it as an opportunity to bad mouth organizations that do great work that affects all (not just personal family & friends) is disgusting. It was obviously a political statement that they couldn't refrain themselves from making. These are the people who support candidates like Donald Trump. They are selfish people who will only lend a hand if they've decided they personally like you. This is the entire reason we have a government. To band together to help each other - and that includes ALL of us, not just the few that you've decided are worthy through your church or whatever.

History has shown that Trump would try to condition aid on voting for him.

Remember how early in the pandemic, Trump did not really want to lift a finger because COVID initially was hitting the more densely populated blue states. For example, even as thousands of people died in New York, his home state, he saw it as a Blue State problem and thought it was unfair to spend federal monies to save lives in Blue States? It was only when the deaths soared in red states that Trump suddenly wanted to dump money on providing aid to impacted states. Indeed, Trump's misinformation that COVID was a "blue state problem" helped feed into red states being much more lax in responding to COVID, which resulted over time to higher death rates per 100,000 from 2020 to 2023 with a state like Florida eventually overtaking NY, which was devastated early in the pandemic.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/

Hundreds of thousands of people died due to Covid under his watch and due to his desire for revenge and payback, yet Republicans want to suggest that Biden/Harris are not responding appropriately to Hurricane? Did everyone forget how Trump also stalled aid to Puerto Rico, because he saw no point, since they have no electoral votes, and his foot dragging helped lead to close 3,000 dead due to the Hurricane.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-trump-says-blue-state-bailouts-unfair-to-republicans.html