Twitter Goes Off on Trump's Puerto Rico Tweets: 'You're Going Straight to Hell'
by Colby Hall | 9:28 am, September 30th, 2017
In a long list of “he’s gone too far and this will surely damage his reputation beyond repair” there appears to be another example of President Donald Trump’s pissing people off. Today it’s Trump’s attacking of the Puerto Rican people — and mayor of San Juan — who he criticized via Twitter this morning which raised the ire of ‘blue check Twitter.”
Yesterday, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz explained in a CNN interview that “people are dying” then warned later in a press conference that she feared something like “genocide.” Trump’s reaction to that, while ensconced in his own comfortable country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, was to criticize both the San Juan mayor AND the people of Puerto Rico.
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If you see this as playing on some ugly stereotypes of “lazy” Hispanics and government free-loaders, then you aren’t alone. Despite it being an early Saturday morning — and Yom Kippur — Twitter was incredibly vocal in its dismay and disgust at Trump’s Twitter rhetoric. To wit:
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https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter
And the last word? San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz — who did not take Trump’s Twitter bait — took the high road, and instead doubled down on her call for help.
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That’s what leadership looks like.
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