Just imagine how FDR, or JFK, or Clinton, or Obama, would have dealt with Puerto Rico...

[First Speaker]

...or, for that matter, Ike. Or--gulp--Nixon. Or--double gulp--Reagan. Or even--God help me--Dubya. "Heckuva job, Brownie" looks downright brilliant, compared to the Thing we have in the White House now. Can you imagine *any* of them reacting as Dolt 45 has...?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Every last one of them, even W, would have responded immediately.

They'd have suspended the Jones Act on the first day; deployed enough military and FEMA personnel to clear roads and get supplies off the docks to the people who need them; and seen to it that all necessary funds were appropriate for relief and rebuilding. W's big stupid mistake after Katrina was that he delegated the responsibility to manage the relief process to a completely unqualified FEMA director who hadn't a clue either. The current FEMA director seems much better qualified, but Puerto Rico needs a whole lot more than FEMA can do by itself. But Trump just doesn't give a shit. He didn't even want to suspend the Jones Act until he got pressured into doing it (he wanted to protect the $$ of the shippers).

[northoftheborder]

2. I like to imagine how President Hillary Clinton would have responded.

[Soxfan58]

3. We can not forget

How bad Katrina was. W really fucked up.

[Blindingly apparent]

4. Why was Jimmy Carter omitted

Carter is probably the greatest humanitarian of all of them

[NastyRiffraff]

5. That's very true

and Carter, along with the other four living ex-US presidents, are fundraising for hurricane relief, including Puerto Rico. We can donate at https://www.oneamericaappeal.org/