Trump tours damage from Hurricane Laura in Texas and Louisiana

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CBS NEWS

President Trump on Saturday toured damage from Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Orange, Texas – two of the hardest-hit areas. Mr. Trump vowed assistance for both cities, saying in Texas that "we've never seen anything like" the force of the storm.

Laura made landfall as a Category 4 storm, but was less powerful than Hurricane Maria, which struck Puerto Rico as a Category 5 storm in 2017. Maria resulted in 2,975 deaths, the highest death toll from a hurricane in a century.

Mr. Trump's visit comes two days after the Laura smashed into the Gulf Coast in Louisiana near the Texas border. At least 12 people died in Louisiana due to the storm and at least four died in Texas, most as a result of trees falling on homes or carbon monoxide poisoning from generators.

Mr. Trump said Saturday while in Texas that FEMA would deliver 400,000 liters of water and 200,000 meals. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that he has declared a disaster in 62 counties and their priorities are "power, water, evacuees, assessment."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-laura-louisiana-trump-tours-damage-texas/

[Bayard]

1. Pure photo op

[OnlinePoker]

2. Did he bring his paper towels? n/t

[Alacritous Crier]

3. ???

Mr. Trump vowed assistance for both cities, saying in Texas that "we've never seen anything like" the force of the storm.


DA FUQ was hurricane Michael.... Maria???

Jackass can't get a thing right.

[NotASurfer]

4. Look at the people around him in those photo ops

All of the skin tones are paler than his orange

[dhill926]

5. adding insult to injury....

[japple]

6. I saw a video clip of him signing autographs and telling people to

"sell them on ebay tonight for $10,000."

https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/29/trump-lake-charles-hurricane-storm-autograph-10-thousand-dollars-ebay/

[underpants]

7. When I first heard he was going I thought "Why?"

What good is his going there do for anyone?

[Grokenstein]

8. Please, someone ask him if the lights are back on in San Juan yet.

He won't have the first clue what that means. He'll say "it's Mexico's problem" or something equally idiotic, and then his toadies will fall over themselves claiming it was sarcasm.