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This was a few days ago. He was a #FAIL on #PuertoRico.
Trump Rates His Hurricane Relief: Great. Amazing. Tremendous.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/us/politics/trump-puerto-rico-hurricane.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
Mark Landler
7-9 minutes
President Trump, with Mariano Rajoy of Spain, raved on Tuesday about the federal response to a series of recent hurricanes. Aid workers are doing great work, he said. Tom Brenner/The New York Times
WASHINGTON President Trump has a ready answer for anyone who questions his administrations response to the hurricanes that laid waste to Texas, Florida, the United States Virgin Islands and now Puerto Rico.
We are doing a great job, he declared on Tuesday in the Rose Garden. We did a great job in Texas, a great job in Florida, a great job in Louisiana. We hit little pieces of Georgia and Alabama. And frankly, he added, were doing
Then he stopped himself to gild the lily even further.
Puerto Rico, Mr. Trump pointed out, posed a special challenge to disaster relief efforts. Its on an island in the middle of the ocean, he observed to a reporter who asked him whether he had been too consumed by his feud with the National Football League to give it proper attention. You cant just drive your trucks there from other states.
Despite those hurdles, he said, the territorys governor, Ricardo A. Rosselló, told him: The entire federal work force is doing great work in Puerto Rico. And I appreciated his saying it. And hes saying it to anybody that will listen.
So is Mr. Trump..................................
greatauntoftriplets
(175,771 posts)And that's all I'd better say about it.
bdamomma
(63,961 posts)He is such a coward and a jerk.