“Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here and what is your death count? Sixteen people, versus in the thousands,” Trump said. “You can be very proud. Sixteen versus literally thousands of people.”
It gets worse:
During his briefing, he made an apparent attempt at a joke about the cost of recovery. “I hate to tell you Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack,” he said.
“That’s fine. We saved a lot of lives.” Yet the remark comes in the context of Trump repeatedly mentioning Puerto Rico’s debts as both a reason for the slow recovery and a reason to think hard about reconstruction there. Nor did he make similar remarks after hurricanes in Texas and Florida.
Okay, this is the part where I lose it.
62 million of you voted for this disaster. Happy?
1 comment:
Budget out of whack? Dude, your budget is nothing but whack.
Apparently the flaming he got in the press for this worked a little; this morning he's saying that existing debt has to be wiped out.
But for someone who claims a working grasp of symbolism, you'd think that throwing paper towels into a crowd at a disaster response meeting would be ill-advised...
-Doug in Oakland
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