Time at golf club hurt response to Maria
By Abby Phillip, Ed O'Keefe, Nick Miroff and Damian Paletta
September 29 at 8:07 PM
... for four days .. as storm-ravaged Puerto Rico struggled .. Trump and his top aides effectively went dark ...
Trump jetted to New Jersey .. to spend a long weekend at his private golf club there, save for a quick trip to Alabama for a political rally. Neither Trump nor any of his senior White House aides said a word publicly about the .. crisis.
Trump did hold a meeting at his golf club that Friday with half a dozen Cabinet officials .. but .. to discuss his new travel ban, not the hurricane. Duke and Trump spoke briefly about Puerto Rico but did not talk again until Tuesday ...
... He spent much of his time over those four days fixated on his escalating public feuds with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with fellow Republicans in Congress and with the National Football League ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lost-weekend-how-trumps-time-at-his-golf-club-hurt-the-response-to-maria/2017/09/29/ce92ed0a-a522-11e7-8c37-e1d99ad6aa22_story.html?utm_term=.0850167b9069
