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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 10:09 AM Sep 2017

Trump lashes out at Puerto Rico officials 'They want everything to be done for them'

Trump lashes out at Puerto Rico officials
'They want everything to be done for them,' the president tweets amid mounting criticism of his administration's disaster response.
By MATTHEW NUSSBAUM 09/30/2017 07:50 AM EDT Updated 09/30/2017 09:30 AM EDT

President Donald Trump attacked the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, writing on Twitter Saturday that she and other leaders on the storm-ravaged territory “want everything to be done for them.”

Trump’s early morning broadsides came after San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz slammed the administration’s response repeatedly on Friday amid growing media coverage of the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

“We are dying here,” Cruz said in an emotional plea on Friday. “If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy.”

Her plea and others like it have led critics to liken Trump’s response to that of George W. Bush in New Orleans after Katrina struck that city a decade ago.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/30/trump-attacks-mayor-san-juan-puerto-rico-hurricane-243329
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Trump lashes out at Puerto Rico officials 'They want everything to be done for them' (Original Post) workinclasszero Sep 2017 OP
we've never had such a low-life as 'president'....never. spanone Sep 2017 #1
The worst workinclasszero Sep 2017 #3
Just when you think you can't hate him even more. njhoneybadger Sep 2017 #2
He is a racist Johnny2X2X Sep 2017 #4
There's also the element of them not being able to vote. NYC Liberal Sep 2017 #12
Babyman orangecrush Sep 2017 #5
Exactly workinclasszero Sep 2017 #8
a disastrous piece of a human. He may not be human SummerSnow Sep 2017 #6
From the person who sarisataka Sep 2017 #7
K&R UTUSN Sep 2017 #9
Well you know Donald, when you have just been through treestar Sep 2017 #10
You can only see hurricane survivors as lazy and entitled if you are a sick, disgusting milestogo Sep 2017 #11

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
12. There's also the element of them not being able to vote.
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 11:50 AM
Sep 2017

Trump only cares about what benefits or can benefit him. PR is of no use to him, so he just doesn’t give a shit.

Still a racist. But he’d do more if he thought he would gain something from it.

It’s all about him. Racist asshole.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
8. Exactly
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 10:33 AM
Sep 2017

It is a massive failure of our government that a evil racist POS like Trump now sits in the white house.

His greasy sweaty finger hovering over the end of the world button 24/7.

And here we all sit, the non hateful, the non insane while this madman reeks havoc on the world, powerless to do one damn thing to stop it.

We will sit and watch Trump as he burns the world and laughs!

treestar

(82,383 posts)
10. Well you know Donald, when you have just been through
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 11:46 AM
Sep 2017

a hurricane, doing for yourself just might not be enough.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
11. You can only see hurricane survivors as lazy and entitled if you are a sick, disgusting
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 11:49 AM
Sep 2017

self-centered racist with no empathy for other human beings.

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