MAGA Trump supporter Jessica Thompson expressed complete disappointment this week after her mother-in-law refused to loan her money for baby formula, citing the very political choice Thompson proudly made just months ago.
Thompson, who receives SNAP benefits while her veteran husband attends school on the GI Bill, took to Facebook to share her distress over the government shutdown threatening her food assistance, explaining she was "at my wits' end" with two young children, one possibly autistic. When Thompson's husband asked his mother for help buying formula, she responded simply: "We voted for this".
The mother-in-law's brutal assessment appears factually accurate, as Thompson voted for Donald Trump, whose "big beautiful bill" is projected to cut SNAP benefits for 22.3 million families, representing the largest cut to the program in history at $186 billion through 2034.
"I just don't understand why my family won't help us," Thompson wrote in her now-viral post, demonstrating the kind of cause-and-effect comprehension typically mastered by age four. "We're struggling here."
Sources close to the situation confirmed that Thompson spent the previous year enthusiastically sharing Facebook memes about "welfare queens" and championing "personal responsibility" before discovering that, as it turns out, she was discussing herself the whole time.
The timing of Thompson's crisis coincides with the Trump administration's attempt to cease SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans during the government shutdown, a move blocked by a federal judge who noted that "irreparable harm will begin to occur" — harm Thompson apparently assumed would exclusively target people who looked less like her.
