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Twelve Children Starved to Death. Trump and Musk Helped Make It Happen. [1]
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Date: 2025-04-20
Abdo was only 18 months old. His ribs stuck out from his tiny chest, his body wasting away from hunger. His mother rushed him to the nearest clinic — but it was too late.
The next day, doctors laid his body on a blanket covered with teddy bears.
Abdo is one of twelve children who starved to death in a single neighborhood in Khartoum, Sudan after Donald Trump froze U.S. foreign aid.
The American-funded soup kitchens that had been their only lifeline shut down almost overnight.
The bombs kept falling. The gunfire kept roaring. But without food, even the smallest and strongest could not survive.
“It was catastrophic,” said Duaa Tariq, an aid worker on the ground.
Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Killing Children
Sudan’s civil war has created the worst humanitarian crisis in decades.
Over half the country — 25 million people — are acutely hungry.
U.S. aid once helped feed 4.4 million Sudanese people. But after Trump dismantled USAID, hundreds of soup kitchens shuttered, millions lost access to food, and children like Abdo died waiting for help that never came.
The Trump administration claims that emergency aid was "exempt" from the cuts.
But aid workers on the ground say otherwise: American funding dried up for weeks, and where survival meant eating one meal a day — a single interruption meant death.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk — Trump’s biggest megaphone — cheered on the gutting of foreign aid, calling it “wasteful” as children starve.
The Damage Is Still Happening
Even now, only half of Khartoum’s soup kitchens have reopened.
Local volunteers are scrambling to fill the gap, but $12 million a month is needed to feed Sudan’s starving people — and they are getting barely $500,000.
While the United Nations warns of mass death and famine, Trump and Musk focus on cheap applause from extremist corners of the internet.
This is a moral failure of historic proportions.
This is what happens when cruelty becomes policy.
Don’t Let This Be the End of America’s Moral Leadership
The United States was once a beacon for human dignity around the world.
We built a liberal order after World War II — not to dominate, but to defend life, freedom, and peace.
Cutting aid betrays not only the people of Sudan.
It betrays the very idea of what America should stand for.
What You Can Do
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