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malaise

(269,157 posts)
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 08:44 PM Oct 2017

What I want to know

If Puerto Rico is an American territory why would Dotard Groper Don the Con tell them that they are throwing 'OUR' budget out of whack. How offensive was that?
https://www.vox.com/2017/10/3/16413142/]puerto-rico-trump-budget
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During a long-overdue tour of Puerto Rico to survey hurricane damage, President Trump had few comforting words for victims on the island. Instead, the president gave Puerto Ricans an earful about all the money the US government is spending to help the US territory.

"I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you are throwing our budget out of whack," he said. "We've spent a lot of money in Puerto Rico."

It was an odd thing to say at a moment when presidents are expected to offer comforting words to disaster victims. Even worse, it doesn't seem to be true. Based on FEMA public assistance data, the government isn't spending that much money in Puerto Rico yet.

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He is despicable

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What I want to know (Original Post) malaise Oct 2017 OP
thats like telling a sick child that their "cancer treatment"... samnsara Oct 2017 #1
Perfect malaise Oct 2017 #4
And he is a giant deficit all by himself MLAA Oct 2017 #7
Trump cut off health insurance for his sick nephew csziggy Oct 2017 #6
Our budget was out of whack, long before Puerto Rico was thrown into the mix. dubyadiprecession Oct 2017 #2
he's a body without a soul. spanone Oct 2017 #3
not one malaise Oct 2017 #5
i would have said to him...... Takket Oct 2017 #8
ROFL malaise Oct 2017 #10
Speaking of getting whacked ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #9

samnsara

(17,634 posts)
1. thats like telling a sick child that their "cancer treatment"...
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 08:51 PM
Oct 2017

....caused the family to go bankrupt....trump is an emotionally abusive parent!!

csziggy

(34,137 posts)
6. Trump cut off health insurance for his sick nephew
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 09:09 PM
Oct 2017
The Trump Files: When Donald Took Revenge by Cutting Off Health Coverage for a Sick Infant
Classy.


Natalie Schreyer
Aug. 25, 2016 10:00 AM

The story begins after the death of Trump’s father, Fred Sr., in 1999. As David Cay Johnston explains in his book The Making of Donald Trump, Fred Sr. had written a will after the death of his oldest son, Fred Jr., known as Freddy, in 1981. The will left the majority of Fred Sr.’s wealth to Donald and his surviving siblings. Freddy’s family was largely cut out.

When Fred Sr. died, Freddy’s children sued, claiming that the will “had been ‘procured by fraud and undue influence’ by Donald and the other surviving siblings,” according to Johnston.

Johnston writes that medical insurance had consistently been provided to the family through Fred Sr.’s company. This coverage was crucial for Freddy’s grandson (Donald’s grandnephew), who suffered from seizures and later developed cerebral palsy. So crucial, in fact, that a letter sent from a Trump lawyer to the insurer after the patriarch’s death in 1999 said that “all costs” for the sick child’s care should be covered, regardless of caps on the plan or medical necessity, according to Johnston. That didn’t last long.

A week after the lawsuit was filed in court, Freddy’s son (Donald’s nephew) received a letter informing him that the health insurance would be discontinued, meaning his ill son would be left without coverage. Donald openly admitted to the New York Daily News that he and his siblings took this action out of revenge.

More: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-sick-infant-medical-care/

spanone

(135,859 posts)
3. he's a body without a soul.
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 09:00 PM
Oct 2017

he's mean through and through. not one redeeming value.

yes, he's despicable in every way possible.



Takket

(21,611 posts)
8. i would have said to him......
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 09:47 PM
Oct 2017

"Don't look at us. You are the great business man. You figure it out. That's what you ran on."

and then i would have said.....

"Oh, and fuck you, you orange shitgibbon."

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