Lost weekend: How Trump's time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria
Source: WaPo
As Hurricane Maria made landfall on Wednesday, Sept. 20, there was a frenzy of activity publicly and privately. The next day, President Trump called local officials on the island, issued an emergency declaration and pledged that all federal resources would be directed to help.
But then for four days after that as storm-ravaged Puerto Rico struggled for food and water amid the darkness of power outages Trump and his top aides effectively went dark themselves.
Trump jetted to New Jersey that Thursday night to spend a long weekend at his private golf club there, save for a quick trip to Alabama for a political rally. Neither Trump nor any of his senior White House aides said a word publicly about the unfolding crisis.
Trump did hold a meeting at his golf club that Friday with half a dozen Cabinet officials including acting Homeland Security secretary Elaine Duke, who oversees disaster response but the gathering was to discuss his new travel ban, not the hurricane. Duke and Trump spoke briefly about Puerto Rico but did not talk again until Tuesday, an administration official said.
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Editing to add a few more. The article goes on to say that Trump spent those four days "fixated on his escalating public feuds with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with fellow Republicans in Congress and with the National Football League over protests during the national anthem."
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)traitorous ass. Unreal.
SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)Grammy23
(5,815 posts)Just boggles my mind where they would even start. He is without doubt the most ill equipped or prepared for the job in American history. We've had some duzies in the office but trump, by far, takes the crown for worst.president.ever. I would love to be a fly on the wall when tRump finally realizes how much he is loathed and how poorly he is regarded. Then again, he is a master at living in his own reality, so he may never come to that realization, even if it is written in black and white.
DoubleAgentOrange
(81 posts)David Duke Nukem sure puts the KKK in Katrina.
pfitz59
(10,423 posts)Trump golfs. History does not foretell a good outcome...
MaeScott
(878 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Ivanka takes Thursday thru Monday off, pretending to be Jewish. So, without his top aide, what is tRump supposed to do? Nobody there to TELL him how to respond to any emergency. Besides, aren't those people brown? Plus, they are so far away, surrounded by an ocean, so why is this news?? Since there are no tRump properties there, how important can it be?All the rich folks got off while the getting was good, so only little people are stranded. This is how he will respond to any emergency, so be prepared. We do not have a REAL president, just a golfer who acts as president, and is not even good at that.
Timmygoat
(779 posts)Trump's statement that he will have to talk to the government of Puerto Rico about the rebuilding, It cannot be possible that he does not know he is the government!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Squandering our hard-earned tax dollars on gourmet luxuries for themselves while hurricane victims suffer and starve. Disgusting.
FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)Unfit for office so impeach the prick.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...this really needs to be spread far and wide.