The Ultimate Insult: Trump sends Ben Carson to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria anniversary

[spanone]

Washington (CNN)One year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico -- and one week after President Donald Trump denied the storm's death toll of nearly 3,000 -- the Trump administration is sending a delegation of senior administration officials to the island.

Led by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, a cadre of 20 administration officials are meeting with Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and other local officials "to discuss ongoing recovery efforts as we continue building a stronger, more resilient Puerto Rico," deputy White House press secretary Lindsay Walters said in a statement.

The group will visit the Joint Recovery Office in Guaynabo, where they will meet and thank federal personnel supporting Puerto Rico's recovery. They will then attend an official ceremony to memorialize the anniversary, according to Walters. Carson will deliver remarks on behalf of the administration.

Earlier Thursday, the White House sent a fact sheet to reporters touting the administration's "historic recovery effort" and "significant progress" over the year since Maria's landfall. The fact sheet acknowledged that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has "worked to address lessons learned" from the hurricane.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/20/politics/trump-administration-puerto-rico/index.html

[rzemanfl]

1. The first thing I looked for was Borowitz or Onion. Maybe Ben should take his wife to look

for bargain furniture. What day of the shit show is this? Make it stop!

[CatMor]

2. Amazing how everything done in trumps administration is

historic, stupendous, never been done before in the history of the world, the best, etc. Meanwhile 3000 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of the hurricane and trump denies it. It took a year to restore electricity to all. But they did get lots of paper towels to sop up the flooding.

[spanone]

3. 'historic recovery efforts'.... historically disastrous

[aka-chmeee]

5. From "Dune" by Frank Herbert

“My propaganda corps is one of the finest,” the Duke said….

“Yes, I am tired,” the Duke said. “Did you know we’re using spice residue as raw material and already have our own factory to manufacture filmbase?”

“Sir?”

“We mustn’t run short of filmbase,” the Duke said. “Else, how could we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn’t tell them?”

[smirkymonkey]

4. Yep. Typical Trump strategy. Send the dark guy to deal with the brown people.

What an ass! He will never atone for his abysmal lack of action in Puerto Rico. He just doesn't care. Miserable motherfucker.