Trump's lack of empathy about Puerto Rico is staggering

[spanone]

(CNN)After spending the weekend feuding with football players and trashing Sen. John McCain, on Monday night President Donald Trump turned his attention to the devastation still faced by several regions in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

"Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble," he tweeted to his 39 million followers.

Link to tweet

Just what is wrong with the President's tweets about these areas struggling through a tremendous recovery?

Everything.

Let's begin with Puerto Rico, an island of 3.4 million American citizens (more than many states) that has been plunged into darkness for the foreseeable future. But it wasn't until Tuesday, six days after Maria hit Puerto Rico, that Trump made a substantive late-to-the-disaster statement during a press conference with the Spanish foreign minister at the White House.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/26/opinions/trumps-lack-of-empathy-about-puerto-rico-reyes/index.html

[FSogol]

1. K & R. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

2. Typical "atypical" response from an atypical fake prez.

[raven mad]

3. Yep, protecting his $33 MILLION dollar bankruptcy,

and not one single person.

I'm sore, I'm old, and we just sent off the next truckload.

[onecaliberal]

4. Does it really surprise you

[spanone]

7. i constantly appalled....surprised, no.

[onecaliberal]

14. Agree. There is no depth they won't sink to.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Nobody knows more about debt...

than Donald Trump.

Believe me.

[kskiska]

6. What is he going to do

when these American citizens begin emigrating to the mainland by the thousands?

[leftstreet]

8. He's probably crafting a travel ban as we speak

what an asshole he is

[itcfish]

9. From What I Understand

Residents of Puerto Rico do not vote in Presidential Elections. Can this be a reason Trump could care less about the people of Puerto Rico?

[kskiska]

13. If they come here

they will vote - and not for him.

[itcfish]

15. They have to reside

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in one of the 50 states, not in Puerto Rico it self.

[madokie]

10. That 30 or so million he swindled

from them would help a lot right the fuck now tRump

[madokie]

11. The thing is

The Puerto Rican people have always been treated like second class people. Hell when I was in the Navy years ago there were a lot of PR kids in boot camp but unless you were on a ship, I wasn't, you never seen them after boot. You know why because they were cabin boys for the Navy Brass. Yes you got that right, Cabin Boys

[Motley13]

12. Even when he does talk about PR, it is still all about him

"we are doing a great job, blah, blah, blah"

"the mayor, the governor say what a great job we are doing"

[itcfish]

16. Maybe Trump Should

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look up the Jones Act and then comment on Puerto Rico.