"So mad I could spit": a former disaster relief official on Trump's response to Puerto Rico

[highplainsdem]

Source: Vox

The Washington Post has a new report out breaking down the response by President Donald Trump’s administration to the ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico.

Now a former foreign disaster assistance chief under President Barack Obama, who said he was trying “to be balanced” regarding Trump’s handling of the situation because he knows “how hard this stuff is,” said that the report has finally made him snap — “so mad I could spit.”

Jeremy Konyndyk, who now works for the Center for Global Development, calls the Trump administration’s response disaster management “malpractice.” Here are his tweets breaking down the report:

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In short, the Trump administration squandered the early days of the response — and has done little to rectify the situation in the aftermath. That’s led to a truly catastrophic humanitarian crisis that one official at the Army Corps of Engineers said is comparable to the Iraq War in 2003.

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Read more: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/30/16389640/puerto-rico-disaster-relief

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Konyndyk's Twitter thread here (linked tweets, also quoted in the article above):

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[BigmanPigman]

1. He is NOT going to get good reviews on this issue.

I think he cteated the controversy with the kneeling at NFL to appease the base and distract from healthcare. Now this will legitimately distract him in a negative light. I wonder what distraction from Puerto Rico he will create?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. I am positive he is being directed to practice 'Disaster Capitalism" as Naomi Klein described it.

He is directly responsible for the increased post-storm death rate.

and now that horrible vicious tweet attack on the Mayor.....I am seriously, literally nauseated by what he said.

[Scurrilous]

2. K&R

[Marthe48]

3. Go back and back and back

not a single thing trump has done succeeded. He is a sham failure, surrounded by sham fakes, who rely on blathering spittle to hype false ability.

He and his henchman are as unable to organize and lead as a fart in a windstorm.

[PatrickforO]

5. Wow. The horrible agony of our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico is beyond words and tears.

Not only is Trump a white nationalist, narcissist, and the absolute king of emoluments (started 49 new enterprises since being elected that are making him money), lazy and immoral, but we can now add CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT to his resume.

He is truly unfit for office.

No American deserves the Trump 'brand' of leadership. The world does not deserve it.

Pence needs to be pressured to invoke Amendment 25 and declare Cheetoh unfit for office and remove him before more innocent people die from his malfeasance. We are BETTER THAN THIS as a nation, as a people.

[Marthe48]

6. It is almost all too much to sink in

he destroyed everything from casinos to football leagues. And now the most powerful country in the world, in 9 months. Just by being a self-absorbed parasite.

No, we didn't deserve destruction, but that's what we are living. Right now.

[FirstLight]

13. THIS

I'm so disgusted ...each day is another offense to my sense of "normal"I just want to puke at each new horror...
Whenever I think it can't get worse...well, you know

[bdamomma]

15. tRump is a danger and a risk to all of us

He needs to be removed ASAP. Putin must be very proud right now. tRump is dismantling the US from the inside, he is a domestic terrorist isn't he????

[Marthe48]

17. No argument here

I have grandkids. I pick them up from school and see their classmates. I want all of those kids, all of the kids to grow up safe.

[PatrickforO]

7. I have written letters to my US Rep, and Senators

regarding this matter, and urge all of you to write yours and express your fury at this genocide.

[Kingofalldems]

8. But Trump has been tweeting about how great he is.

[Bengus81]

9. Trump: I might be there Tuesday,now WATCH this drive! n/t

[bdamomma]

16. I would like to

"drive" him right into the ground. tRump needs to go Period. Racist pig he is.

[Gothmog]

10. 'I am begging, begging anyone that can hear me to save us from dying...we are dying'

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/29/1702781/-San-Juan-Mayor-I-am-begging-begging-anyone-that-can-hear-me-to-save-us-from-dying-we-are-dying

[Dustlawyer]

11. Heck of a job Trumpo, heck of a job! You make Brownie look like he was not

standing still! Your inaction will go down in posterity as exactly what not to do in a crisis, unfortunately, it will probably still be ignored by the next idiot. History is doomed to repeat itself!

With the example of Bush and Katrina not all that long ago, Trumpo and Co., still managed to outdo them in incompetence!

[Lil Missy]

12. But ... but ... it's not trumps fault he is a deplorable moran!

[yardwork]

14. Kick

[riversedge]

18. trump will be in PR today

[Achilleaze]

19. republicans & their goofy Golfer-in-Chief*

are a clear and present danger to America and Americans.

* Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.