Tag: Hurricane Harvey

Donald Trump Tweets On Hurricane Harvey After Blowback Over Morning Self-Promotion

The following article by Lisa de Moraes was posted on the Deadline.com website August 25, 2017:

This satellite image provided by NASA on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 shows Hurricane Harvey off the Gulf of Mexico. Harvey intensified as it steered toward the Texas coast on Friday, with forecasters saying it had strengthened to a Category 2 storm with the potential to swamp communities more than 100 miles (161 kilometers) inland. (NASA via AP)

President Donald Trump finally weighed in on Twitter about Hurricane Harvey, about four hours after getting torched when his regular Friday morning tweet storm was noticeably lacking any reference to the hurricane. Instead he focused on praising himself and punching at perceived foes, including the media and GOP Sen. Bob Corker.

Trump slapped himself on the back, noting that “Few, if any, Administrations have done more in just 7 months than the Trump A. Bills passed, regulations killed, border, military, ISIS, SC!” Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center was warning that Harvey was “dangerously approaching the Texas Coast” and was expected to bring “life-threatening” storm-surge flooding by end of the day, leaving swaths of South Texas “uninhabitable for weeks or months.” The weather service used its strongest language since 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, which left more than 1,800 dead. Continue reading “Donald Trump Tweets On Hurricane Harvey After Blowback Over Morning Self-Promotion”

Hurricane Harvey will be Trump’s first major natural disaster test

The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppesch and Joanie Greve was posted on the Washington Post website August 25, 2017:

While touring flood-damaged Louisiana in Aug. 2016, Donald Trump took a shot at President Barack Obama for his decision not to cut short a vacation on Martha’s Vineyard where he had been golfing. (Reuters)

THE BIG IDEA: Last August, Donald Trump attacked Barack Obama for golfing on Martha’s Vineyard after floods in Louisiana left 13 people dead. The then-Republican nominee flew to Baton Rouge to hand out toys to children who had lost their homes. “The president says he doesn’t want to go,” an outraged Trump told volunteers at a Baptist church.

“I heard he wants to stay under par while we are under water,” said Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council. Continue reading “Hurricane Harvey will be Trump’s first major natural disaster test”