**Breaking** Trump threatens to abandon Puerto Rico recovery efforts

[SummerSnow]

President Trump served notice that he may pull back federal workers from Puerto Rico, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid a humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
--By Philip Rucker41 minutes ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

[spanone]

1. this alone should bring on impeachment

[mucifer]

6. not if the majority of republicans themselves are sacks of sh-t

they have to be on board with impeachment. They are getting what they want with trump destroying everything and giving it all to the wealthy.

[Orrex]

10. Heh. "If."

[dae]

15. 👍🏼

[Initech]

42. Yup - the Kochs and the Mercers are getting their payday.

That they were denied under Obama. Fuck these motherfuckers.

[Eliot Rosewater]

53. They care about two things, tax cuts and harming all minorities.

Trump is doing a grand job of one of these and is capable of doing the other.

My problem is Pence will be ZERO improvement and call me crazy, but I dont want my president to be the person who LOST the election and was helped by our greatest enemy.

[catbyte]

68. But they are sacks of sh-t. Does anybody really believe they're propping up that nightmare

because of tax cuts? Give me a goddamned break. They're scared of being primaried by The Cult. Pence would sign a tax cut bill just as fast as that orange POS, and it would probably slide through Congress faster than shit through a goose. No, this has nothing to do with "tax cuts." They're all spineless cowards, scared shitless of Cult45.

[shenmue]

76. Yes

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. In his bullshit speech last night he never mentioned Puerto Rico

Hurricane in general was it.

[redstatebluegirl]

7. He never talks about the horrible fires in California either.

I'm sure helping would cost to much money. Sounds like Daddy when a kid comes to them for movie money.

[CakeGrrl]

16. Brown people and/or Blue states.

He only cares about his base: White people, Red states.

[smirkymonkey]

40. He is only the President to his base.

To hell with the rest of us. I cannot wait until the day when I get to dance on his grave.

[Grammy23]

44. They will probably have to cremate him or bury him in some secret location.

Otherwise people will be lining up to take a very large dump on the grave, followed by a “golden shower” to enhance their experience. A fitting tribute to an utterly vile human monster.

[MyOwnPeace]

47. Dance early.........

if I get there before you - you will really want to be careful where you step (problem on your shoes)

[MFM008]

51. I will celebrate

Like it was Obama's 3rd term when this maggot bites it.

[SergeStorms]

71. There's going to be a fight.....

between you and I for "squatting rights" to be first in line.

Naw, any DUer is safe from the crack of my nasty ass. I couldn't do that to a family member. You can go first, and I WILL step lightly around your generous "opinion" of Trump's burial ground.

[MyOwnPeace]

73. NASTY situation..........

but one we could work out, celebrating the best, bestest occasion in a bigly way!

[DK504]

30. He want's California to burn.

He hates it as musch as President Obama. A billion dollars has gone up in flames, in homes and industry, either the congress get off its ass and do something or this whole country will be literally up in flames.

[yuiyoshida]

74. God I hate this fucker with a passion

Fucker thinks he is the King, and can go to hell!

トランプサン, 謹んで申し上げます、くたばれ、ボケ。

[Marthe48]

24. Or the dead Green Berets in Niger

n/t

[Chasstev365]

3. Once again, ALL Republicans must be made to OWN this fucker!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

67. +1. Can't be said too often. tRump is apex of 40 years Republicon effort conning large segments. .nt

[redstatebluegirl]

4. Let them eat cake.

If we don't see this as a takeover by the rich and powerful we are not paying attention. It has been happening slowly for the past 30 years. The rich care not what happens to the poor brown people of PR. I hate to quote scrooge but "are there no jails, are there no workhouses" comes to mind.

Just wait, spring is coming and many of the bright red states, like the one we live in, will be seeing huge tornadoes with the increase in global climate change. If we have a huge one in OKC and he doesn't respond quickly and with tons of money for his many uninsured followers there will be hell to pay. Of course most of his "followers" are white so I'm sure they will get what they need.

[JDC]

5. Horrible, less than human being

[lpbk2713]

8. He never intended any more than token assistance anyway.

A case of paper towels will have zero impact.

[democratisphere]

9. Just one more step in assuring his Presidential demise.

This creature is a moronic monster.

[bdamomma]

11. he should be jailed for neglecting

Americans. He needs to be removed.

[bdamomma]

12. this article is from Daily Kos

Germany is helping out in Puerto Rico. Thank you Chancellor Merkel

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/2/1703392/-Germany-steps-up-to-help-rebuild-power-grid-in-Puerto-Rico-s-emergency-relief-centers?detail=emaildkre

[Botany]

13. the man is a monster

Trump himself made a similar promise, saying in a Sept. 29 speech, “We will not rest, however, until the people of Puerto Rico are safe.” He added, “These are great people. We want them to be safe and sound and secure. And we will be there every day until that happens.”

[SummerSnow]

58. and of course this was a lie. Disgraceful

[Le Gaucher]

14. Who gives a shit about people who didn't vote for me

Trump is America's Dark soul.

[L. Coyote]

17. When will Trump threaten to abandon Afghanistan efforts?

Link to tweet

[Thrill]

18. They better get back out there and praise him

Again. Before he reminds them who’s in charge. Kiss his hand.

[left-of-center2012]

19. Better link

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/12/trump-warns-puerto-rico-we-cannot-keep-fema-the-military-the-first-responders-forever/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trump-puertorico-805a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.3c15e9daeb93

[left-of-center2012]

20. Trump: It's their own fault

And he quoted Sharyl Attkisson, a television journalist, as saying, “Puerto Rico survived the Hurricanes, now a financial crisis looms largely of their own making.”

[maxrandb]

21. If I were Puerto Rico

I'd call Putin and say; "hey, you still want a warm water Naval base?"

[Not Ruth]

56. Their only hope is to secede

[dhill926]

22. vile piece of shit.....

what's it gonna take repubs? Yeah....right....

[Fred Sanders]

23. Meanwhile the massive American military stands mainly idly by. Only for war? Where are they??

The man is Satan. I see no difference.

One ship ironically called Comfort.

[atreides1]

36. The American military

Consists mainly of puppets with no initiative or incentive! The command structure is likely as corrupt as their Commander in Chief, where what you have are politicians wearing uniforms, with colorful ribbons!

[olegramps]

49. It is long past time to shut down the service acadmies.

They are the breeding ground for lock-step authoritarianism. Those who want to pursue a military career can do so in universities and colleges in which they are exposed to a multitude of concepts rather than isolated environments.

Neither do a believe that an all-volunteer military is the proper solution in a Republic in which all able-bodied, both male and female, should be responsible for protection of the nation. I fear that young people can be subject to peer pressure to conform to what their superiors dictate when their is no opposition. A system which drafts people from all walks of life of our multi-culture with its diverse levels of economic affluence and degrees of education provides a checkmate on the attempts of brainwashing that has gone on in the present system. This discussion could be greatly expanded on.

[Sunlei]

63. service acadmies-training them for jobs in your local police departments. ground slam training camp.

[Marthe48]

25. Puerto Rico, refugees from other countries, death by trump

The news doesn't seem to mention the refugees from the Middle East, but they are still out there, lives on hold, with people like trump hoping for mass deaths. Same as in Puerto Rico. trump is probably hoping plagues and starvation kill the people he doesn't want on the planet, so he doesn't have to build trump death camps.

I'm hoping that he'll be accused and tried for crimes against humanity, by the World Court.

[MrScorpio]

26. Apparently, this is his response to the question, "What would a dick do?" nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. He's evil.

At this point, I'm praying for a heart attack and I don't even feel bad for saying that.

[awesomerwb1]

31. That's horrible!! ;)

I don't "pray" per se.

But if karma brings him the suffering of all the lives he's destroyed, he's destroying, and will destroy if left in power, I'll high five the universe.

[Blaukraut]

35. No need to feel bad. You're not the only one.

[Ohiya]

70. A massive stroke would do.

[C_U_L8R]

28. Apparently Trump wants to buy up distressed real estate for his golf courses

and hire desperate workers for slave wages.

[Marthe48]

29. Container delivery dropped from 87% to 70% overnight

yay, genocide don.

[7962]

32. The videos from PR will really piss him off; his ratings will plummet

Although I don't know if the word "plummet" is appropriate when his numbers are already in the shitter!!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

33. Trump threatens to abandon Puerto Rico recovery effort

Trump threatens to abandon Puerto Rico recovery effort

By Philip Rucker and Ed O'Keefe October 12 at 7:55 AM

President Trump served notice Thursday that he may pull back federal relief workers from Puerto Rico, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid a staggering humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Declaring the U.S. territory's electrical grid and infrastructure to have been a “disaster before hurricanes,” Trump wrote Thursday that it will be up to Congress how much federal money to appropriate to the island for its recovery efforts and that relief workers will not stay “forever.”

In a trio of tweets, Trump wrote” “We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!”

Three weeks since Maria made landfall, much of Puerto Rico, an island of 3.4 million people, remains without power. Residents struggle to find clean water, hospitals are running short on medicine and commerce is slow with many businesses closed.
....

Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post. He previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House, and the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns. He joined The Post in 2005 as a local news reporter. Follow @PhilipRucker

Ed O’Keefe is a congressional reporter who has covered congressional and presidential politics since 2008. He previously covered federal agencies, the federal workforce and spent a brief time covering the war in Iraq. Follow @edatpost. Follow @edatpost

[bronxiteforever]

34. Impeachment now- he is clearly violating his oath

The country is bleeding out. He is willfully abandoning citizens of the United States when they face imminent death.

This thing that is 45 is a despicable creature of the dark recesses of the American mind.

[barbtries]

37. an act of genocide.

i figured out why i think: he wants to get his war on.

[Still In Wisconsin]

38. It's worse than that actually. He effectively also told them "Pay up!"

Screw you, brown people, you can die trying to drink from contaminated wells, but before you do die, WE WANT OUR FUCKING MONEY! YOU OWE WALL STREET!

[JoeStuckInOH]

39. He's a Businessman making a business decision. Maybe he sees it as not worth the investment.

He's a Businessman ... or at least he plays one on TV.

From that mindset approach, he sees a satellite entity (Puerto Rico) that was already in the red (debt) to the parent corporation (the USA) and now that satellite is going to cost Corporate tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars. In the mean time, the satellite entity can no longer provide services (tourism revenue) so they are dead weight until a cash infusion from Corporate has had time to work. He ran the numbers and decided the money to rebuild is not worth the investment because they can never pay it back, let alone get in the black again.

He's going to do the only thing a heartless savvy businessman knows how to do... Cut it loose. In his mind, if he's lucky, maybe he can sell it off to another Company (country) for pennies on the dollar to recoup whatever he can before jettisoning it.

[BumRushDaShow]

41. "ROI" is their mantra.

They objectify people (employees) as widgets and we are now seeing that mentality used for entities that cannot and should not be run like "businesses" (healthcare, education, government).

[olegramps]

50. He was never a business man, only chalatin who bilked people.

His business acumen was hire someone and refuse to pay them when the job was done. Force them to either sue of settle for a fraction of the original contract. If the deal was a disaster, then declare bankruptcy destroying thousands of people. He is basically a blackmailer without a conscience. He won the presidency the same way. He told the Republican Party either you support me or I will run as an Independent. Having the same lack character as Trump they had little trouble making a pack with the devil. The Republican Party has become a cancer that must be destroyed at all costs before they totally destroy the nation.

[SeattlePop]

43. AS The Deplorables Cheer!!!

Let them suffer is their cry!!!

[Sunlei]

45. Republicans won't let their BULLSHITTER president do that. Twitter shut off his PERSONAL twitter

Force the president to try that bullshit on official white house twitter. He won't because he knows that shit will get him impeached.

[WinkyDink]

60. What are you saying, that Republicans will defy Trump? Bwahahahahaha!

[Sunlei]

61. They already stab trump in the back and neuter whatever he says or signs. Its just for show &

to help a little pass republicans agenda.

Republicans have had same kiss Corporate/for private profit ass agenda for past 20 years.

[WinkyDink]

65. Don't excuse Ryan and Co. TOO much, okay? BTW: That IS the official White House Twitter.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F10029701866

[LudwigPastorius]

46. Trump is vile scum. There is, apparently, no bottom to the depth of his depravity.

The fact that the citizens of this nation collectively allowed him into the White House, where he is to this day, reminds me of this quote:


“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.” -Thomas Jefferson

[JustAnotherGen]

48. Pipe dream I know but

At what point do modern, forward, advanced nations step in to assist in an Humanitarian Crisis for a developing world (USA) country?

Snark aside - I can't believe he's this vile.

So the next time someone at DU gets in a twist because we pick on him for being fat, ugly, and old - I don't give one fuck if it is 'mean'.

At least no on is dying a preventable death because of words.

[Not Ruth]

55. I was seeing if I could send Amazon Prime Pantry boxes of water to Puerto Rico

Can't

[Man_Bear_Pig]

52. If this doesn't get him impeached, nothing will.

[underpants]

54. They don't vote so he doesn't care

Same goes for the fires in California

[Lil Missy]

57. Why isn't this criminal? Fricken' outrageous, and there should be HOWLS coming from American people.

jebus!

[WinkyDink]

59. @kingdonald: "#PRnotastate #needstopayWallSt #FEMAcostsusmoney #smartypantsmayor #moreFAKEnews"

[SummerSnow]

62. He is evil by his very nature- William Shakespeare

[Vinca]

64. There was just a Trumphumper on MSNBC adamently saying our interpretation of the tweet

was incorrect and that help will be there as long as it's needed, yada, yada, yada. The Trumpsplainin' must stop. The fool says what he says and it's rarely pretty. He's an asshole of epic proportions. The biggest asshole. The most tremendous asshole. Believe me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

66. You need to edit your post to post a specific link, not a general non-specific link. . . nt

[JCMach1]

69. Mass exodus of PR, ANGRY anti-Trump voter to FL, and TX

It's going to happen and their votes will count here!

[PatrickforO]

72. I'm having a hard time understanding Trump's logic here.

Let me get this straight.

In late 2008 when the Wall Street crooks caused the economy to collapse - a problem very much of their own making - we taxpayers had to give them $750 billion to bail them out.

Here's my question, which I'm going to be asking staff members for both my US Senators and my US Representative tomorrow: If taxpayers bailed out Wall Street in 2009 as a result of the leadership of Bush and then-president-elect Obama, why can't Trump exert some leadership to bail out Puerto Rico?

After all, my understanding is that $84 million of that debt is directly attributable to a Trump bankruptcy.

So, help me understand here. We can pay out $750 billion to bail out Wall Street after its naked greed and shady dealings nearly destroyed the world's economy, but we can't negotiate down a $72 billion debt owed to Wall Street on behalf of American citizens? Less than 1/10 of what American taxpayers paid to Wall Street under TARP? Why is that?

I have a Republican Senator and I'm anticipating a long telephone call with his DC office over this issue - that is, until I can get some kind of answer.

[doc03]

77. How can a president of a country with a $20 trillion debt

complain about PRs $72 billion debt?

[xxqqqzme]

75. I thought he had

abandoned them already. He has said he will not renew the Jones Act waiver.
USN Comfort sits docked with no way for persons to reach her for needed medical attention.

[Not Ruth]

79. How is the Comfort docked?

I vaguely recall last month something about the depth of the dock.

[xxqqqzme]

80. Maybe I should have said anchored.

Not a seafaring person so I'm not familiar with the language.

[Honeycombe8]

78. Where does it say that in that paper? I don't see that at all. nt