Courtesy of Politico:Pres. Trump tosses paper towel rolls, distributes other supplies to hurricane victims during his Puerto Rico visit https://t.co/UAjQrpyToV http://pic.twitter.com/8IAj5F5OKH— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 3, 2017
“He was insulting to the people of Puerto Rico,” Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said Tuesday night on MSNBC hours after meeting Trump face-to-face at a briefing with Puerto Rican leaders and the president. Beyond the briefing, Trump also toured damaged areas and helped distribute supplies, flicking paper towels into a crowd with the motion of a jump shot in basketball. All of it, Cruz said, was disingenuous.
“This was a PR, 17-minute meeting. There was no exchange with anybody, with none of the mayors,” the mayor said. “And in fact, this terrible and abominable view of him throwing paper towels and throwing provisions at people, it really — it does not embody the spirit of the American nation, you know?”
Particularly egregious, according to the mayor, was Trump’s remark during the briefing with Puerto Rican officials that they should “be very proud” because the death toll on the island has not spiked as it did in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, which the president said was “a real catastrophe.”
“He kind of minimized our suffering here by saying that Katrina was a real disaster, sort of implying that this was not a real disaster because not many people have died here,” Cruz said. “Well you know what? They’re dying. They don’t have the medical resources.”
Yeah I knew yesterday when Trump claimed that Mayor Cruz had "come back a long way," that he was full of shit.
I watched footage of Trump's visit yesterday in horror.
He went out of his way to minimize the devastation and to humiliate the people of Puerto Rico.
And the worst part was the Puerto Rican politicians who sat around trying to give him credibility while sacrificing their own.
This San Juan mayor seems to be the only politician on the island with any balls.
They should make her the freaking governor.
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