Donald Trump To Visit Louisiana Areas Hit by Flooding
Source: Time
Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence plan to tour flooded areas in Louisiana on Friday.
Details of the trip have not been publicly released, and Trumps campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Richard Carbo, a spokesman for the Louisiana governors office, told CBS on Thursday that they had not been contacted about the Republican nominees trip. Carbo said he welcomed Trump to the state, but not for a photo-op, and that he should consider volunteering or making a sizable donation to the LA Flood Relief Fund to help the victims of this storm.
Trump opened his speech in North Carolina Thursday night with words for Louisiana, a state that is very special to me, he said.
When one state hurts, we all hurt and we must all work together to lift each other up, Trump continued. Our prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones, and we send them our deepest condolences. Though words cannot express the sadness one feels at times like this, I hope everyone in Louisiana knows that our country is praying for them and standing with them to help them in these difficult hours.
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Read more: http://time.com/4458832/donald-trump-louisiana-flooding/
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)That 70s blow dry hair will be real popular for Zika mosquito nesting!
Is Melania writing your speech this week?
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Lol. I'm imagining Trump practicing looking caring in front of the mirror. He's mostly incapable, except for perhaps brief moments, of course.
onecent
(6,096 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,181 posts)....instead of setting the example that POTUS is and NOT disrupting the recovery effort, the bald-headed, Putin-fellating, self-centered, small-dicked, walking shitstain is going to fly into a largely African-American city to blow his trumpet and wad over the citizens of the town?
Fuck you and the Eastern European clothes horse you rode in on, you fucking asshat.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)you forgot short-fingered.
hibbing
(10,107 posts)MFM008
(19,818 posts).....
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)What's he gonna do? Insult the flood waters away?
Asshole.
woofless
(2,670 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)He is following RW talking points everyday. Hillary's health, Iran payment, now this.
BumRushDaShow
(129,360 posts)but it won't be long before he goes off script again. "Off-script" is his nature.
underpants
(182,868 posts)I'm getting a bad feeling that this is going to get a lot tighter.
BumRushDaShow
(129,360 posts)he may put Louisiana in play.
underpants
(182,868 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,360 posts)But now this just happened - http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141554250
Should be an interesting day for sure!
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)drumpsfster is really tiring, and besides Larry Wilmore show is coming to an end---------------sad
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/lewis-black-nightly-show-election-has-stop
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)He loves Larry.
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)And then send him and his team a card and tell him that he
whistler162
(11,155 posts)will he donate to the flood victims? I know take any number and multiply it by that evil Arab thing called a zero for the total.
PatSeg
(47,567 posts)to claim he is donating to the flood victims? In Trump World, saying is the same as doing!
groundloop
(11,521 posts)I'd love to see that pampered fucker do even an hour of honest work.
I have a right wing cousin spouting off on facebook about how tRump is going to Louisiana when Hillary and Pres. Obama are staying away. OBVIUOUSLY tRump is just doing a photo-op, but so far they're getting some traction out of it.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)First the floods, and now this.
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)how does one pad your pockets on this and not make it look like another scheme or a fraud in the making?
How does one bill themselves for this on the campaign trail?
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)arriving (all being displayed live on CNN) is absolutely disgusting. Now the streams of police and a dozen black SUVs coming in to escort this pompous ass -- while the state is suffering immensely and can't spare the resources -- but OF COURSE he shoves himself into a photo-op with the suffering people of LA. He is just disgusting. Stuttering David Gergen is wondering where Ivanka and Melania are since they have disappeared.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Trump and and all his people and security team getting in the way of them getting their lives back to some kinda normalcy .
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Because of the security needed to bring in a president for a tour it would take away resources and block roads needed for the recovery.
I suspect Hillary will not visit right away. I also suspect that the Louisiana's governor's message will get buried in the news.
forest444
(5,902 posts)All most voters will remember is: "Trump visited Louisiana; but Obama and Hillary didn't. Boo!!"
You gotta hand it to them: Fascist News - and the Wegman "people meters" that convinced everyone they were getting stellar ratings - was a stoke of genius.
Angel Martin
(942 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)Optics are important.
You and I both know, because we've taken the time to read about what's been actually happening on the ground, that Obama's response to this crisis is like night and day compared to the Shrub's "heck of a job" after Katrina.
But these presidential visits are extremely important for the impression they give voters in general (who should know better; but such is life).
MFM008
(19,818 posts)The scene in "Schindler List" where Oskar tries to convince Amon to be more benevolent , " I pardon you"?
It worked a couple of times until he shoots the guy in the back for lying?
That's Rump. Someone told him to work on being a "compassionate conservative". It's only a matter of time before he starts shooting people in the back again.
APPPLE_PIE
(18 posts)Thank You Donald for the relief packages, but I don't see any minorities getting relief packages from "The Donald." What the Hey!!!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)groundloop
(11,521 posts)Never mind the fact that the Governor specifically said to stay away. I've already had right wing relatives posting Breitbart shit on facebook about this. The problem here is that this publicity will never get 'un-done', people won't bother to gather the facts relating to the Governor asking high profile politicians to stay out for now.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)That ass..ole doesn't know what suffering entails. Ever.
LeftRant
(524 posts)He did the usual rightwing "He's playing golf instead..." B.S.
I don't know what his current numbers are, but at last check he was WAY behind Vice-President Bush:
Not included in this data are trips to the Camp David presidential retreat in western Maryland, which Knoller doesnt count as "vacation." Knoller told Yahoo! News that, through Aug. 12, 2014, Obama had made 33 visits to Camp David for all or part of 84 days, while Bush had been there 108 times for all or part of 341 days.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/aug/23/who-took-more-vacation-george-w-bush-or-barack-oba/