how many think trump is purposefully letting Puerto Rico

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twist in the wind?

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[Chipper Chat]

1. Hispanic - loathing prick

He is he is

[marylandblue]

2. It's incompetence, he has no clue what his actual job is

[tblue37]

11. This, plus the fact that he didn't know they are US citizens. Someone had to tell him.

He figured they were someone else's problem.

[Dave Starsky]

23. It was clear from his appearance the other day...

That he hadn't the first clue about where Puerto Rico was or even what it is until fairly recently. He seemed completely bewildered by it.

[defacto7]

12. He has no clue of anything outside of his own reflection.

[Freethinker65]

3. Now watch this drive.

[RKP5637]

5. Take a picture of ME ME ME! n/t

[RKP5637]

4. Trump doesn't give a damn. In his demented mind they are all losers. n/t

[flamingdem]

6. I think that tRump's inner circle gets off on seeing Puerto Rico suffer

Yes, I think they are sadistic and their world view includes extinguishing the poor and people of color. Especially those that would use public resources. That's how they see them, not as fellow Americans.

Let's hope those forced to leave PR register Democratic Party and help us change things shortly.

[RKP5637]

8. I agree! It's all about sadistic behavior and One-upmanship. n/t

[flamingdem]

9. They can't help themselves. They wanted to do in the poor by destroying Medicaid

Many in PR are on food stamps and medicaid. That plus their debt and these guys, actually most Republicans not just Trumpians, want to simply make that problem go away.

In the end they want PR to be uninhabitable and then they can take it over. That must be under discussion - disaster capitalism at its best.

[RKP5637]

14. Disaster capitalism is a major plague on humanity and we have a government now that

in many quarters champions it, and many in the US and other areas are screwed over and are clueless as to what it going on, often supporting those that don't give a damn about them.

[democratisphere]

7. PR has been left spinning in the wind, purposely.

The monster default debtor attempts to elevate himself by punishing a debtor possession at their greatest time of need.

[flamingdem]

10. Hah, good point.

[Hoyt]

13. Truthfully, responding to disasters should be something FEMA and military when necessary do

without the need for Presidential involvement. That will save people even when an ignorant fool is Prez.

[LostinRed]

15. I don't think he know it was part of US

He that stupid.

[Turbineguy]

16. Hanlon sez.......

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

Although trump is both.

[Ligyron]

30. beat me to it, lol!

and yes, it's both with a heavy emphasis on the former.

[The empressof all]

17. He is a builder

He wants to pick up waterfront property cheaply then have the government pay for the development around it. He and his cronies are setting up a killing! Resorts, golf courses, casinos!!!!

[left-of-center2012]

18. Another job for Jared Kushner

[Doreen]

19. Oh come on people, don't you know that he is perfectly

happy to help them? As soon as they pay HIM every last penny that they owe the country. He and his goons are vile sadistic pieces of puss dripping shit. I would not be concerned in the least if they were there going through the same crap. I think they all have the worst Karma anyone could have at this time. I sure as hell would not want to be in their next life.

[0rganism]

20. his golf trip weekend confirms it

Trump does not dog whistle to his racist base, he calls them over to feed them bloody red meat straight from his hands.

[Quixote1818]

21. He is purposefully letting Puerto Rico rot and he doesn't care if anyone figures it out

That's how insane he is. He is happy to say "Fuck you Puerto Rico, not going to do shit because of all the brown people there and anyone who has a problem with that can screw off."

This man is so predictable.

[no_hypocrisy]

22. OTOH, I don't believe Trump would protest or prevent another country or entity like the U.N.

from stepping in to fund relief and rebuilding Puerto Rico.

He just doesn't want the money to come from this country.

Trump's a dimwit, but he realizes he won't get the money from Congress to build "his" wall if there isn't enough of it due to the allocation of funds for rebuilding Florida and Texas (and other states).

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. Probably more true than any other explanation of his horrid neglect.

Rotten SOB!

[Luz]

24. I think he and his cabal will go down there and buy land dirt

cheap from desperate people. They'll turn it into a Trump gambling mecca and walk away with billions.
JMHO

[Loki Liesmith]

26. I suspect it's unconscious

There's no good electoral reason to destroy PR. Driving its voters to live in Florida is an electoral disaster for Trump.

[samnsara]

27. wonder when we are gonna start hearing the first....

...tweets about why we even HAVE PR in the first place. 'Such a bad deal' he will say.....

[dmosh42]

28. Getting fucked by the biggest "crook and liar"!--scumbag Trump.

[Hortensis]

29. Rump is just Big Business's puppet. They've been talking about privatizing Puerto Rico's

infrastructure for a long time. Dumb as The Donald is, he's a businessman himself, so some of his focus on PR's debt and aged infrastructure is undoubtedly natural to him. And of course he's unable to genuinely care about the plight of little people.

But Trump's administration is extremely heavily infiltrated by Koch and Spencer plants, such as his vice president, his legislative director, most of his cabinet appointees, and others. (The Kochs just lost Tom Price from HHS, but watch for who replaces him.) They're feeding him their plans for how to turn this disaster to their benefit, and of course to minimize the transfer of taxpayer dollars to PR rebuilding instead of their pockets, and/or potentially for rebuilding as part of funneling them into their profits.

In other words, all this talk on DU about Trump himself, as if he's our problem, is deluded. These wolves will get rid of him if and when he's no longer useful to them. Pence is waiting, and after him of course Paul Ryan and Orrin Hatch, both with strong ties to the Kochs.

[workinclasszero]

31. Oh course he is

Lots of brown skin you know?

Fuhrer Dump hates that.

[CanonRay]

32. I said it before the 1st hurricane hit

that USVI and Puerto Rico would get the short end of the relief stick.