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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.
Trumps early morning broadsides came after San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz slammed the administrations 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 Trumps 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
spanone
(135,841 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Bottom of the barrel grifter, con man POS racist.
And a Russian mole to boot!
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)If the Americans in Puerto Rico were mostly white Trump would not be acting like this.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Trump only cares about what benefits or can benefit him. PR is of no use to him, so he just doesnt give a shit.
Still a racist. But hed do more if he thought he would gain something from it.
Its all about him. Racist asshole.
orangecrush
(19,570 posts)this is what happens when you give a mental toddler life and death responsibility.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)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!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)sarisataka
(18,656 posts)just found out Puerto Rico is an island... surrounded by water...
*you know the rest*
UTUSN
(70,700 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)a hurricane, doing for yourself just might not be enough.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)self-centered racist with no empathy for other human beings.