The following article by Kali Holloway was posted on the AlterNet website October 4, 2017:
He tossed rolls of paper towels at the crowd like free T-shirts at a basketball game, for starters.
“The job that’s been done here is really nothing short of a miracle,” Donald Trump said early Tuesday during his trip to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. Coming from someone else, those word might have meant something. But from this president, it was just more empty babble meant to distract the world from noticing how poorly his administration has handled a crisis. (Trump is just haphazardly throwing around the word “miracle” these days, a word he also used to describe the Las Vegas mass shooting. Someone should tell him that “miracle” doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.)
Trump’s primary goal in Puerto Rico has been to zing San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, whose pleas for help shined an unblinking light on this White House’s ineptitude. Oxfam America is now stepping in to fill the gaps in Trump’s woefully “inadequate” response. A German company is sending renewable power storage systems, citing “a mission to support humanity during a climate disaster.” Trump, for his part, rage-tweeted and golfed. Continue reading “7 Most Unhinged Moments from Trump’s Puerto Rico Trip”