Our Dimestore Santa Claus President
President Donald Trump made a trip to Puerto Rico today to survey the damage of Hurricane Maria, meet some of the victims, and discuss with officials the recovery and relief efforts. During his visit, the president told Puerto Rico it was putting the budget out of whack, compared death counts with “real catastrophe” Katrina, and tossed paper towels into a crowd of people.
Trump’s comments about the budget and death counts were immediately slammed by many journalists and pundits on social media. And it appears that even one of the most down-the-middle talking heads on cable news had a strong reaction to Trump’s Puerto Rican visit.
Appearing on CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin this afternoon, CNN politics reporter Chris Cillizza was asked to respond to Trump bringing up body counts while talking to the Puerto Rican governor.
“The clip you played, Brooke, is pretty damning,” he said to host Brooke Baldwin . “There’s so much in that. There’s 13 minutes of video and audio there. He talks about how the weather is usually so great in Puerto Rico.”
Cillizza added that footage of Trump throwing food and paper towels to hurricane victims made the president look like a “dime-store Santa Claus” before stating that what we witnessed from Trump might represent the bottom of the barrel for his presidency.
“I mean, this is — even for Donald Trump who is a breaker of political convention, who is, I think, defining the presidency downward in many ways, this is––I hesitate to say a new low, but this is another low,” he noted. “And I would urge folks if they have the time to watch the 13 minutes, we have it on CNN.com, watch all of it. And you can hear and see for yourselves what I’m talking about.”
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Mr. Russell....they were laughing!
Yeah But, were they laughing because they thought breaking the bank was funny OR because they were pacifying the thin skinned president who they hoped would end their suffering ?
I know wich one it would be for me.
Words fail to describe how inarticulate this man is when he is off script. Every single person he calls on to speak is more articulate and informative than he is.
“The president clearly there deciding to have a love fest for him and his team,” King said.
CNN) ....Instead of mourning with and for those who lost their lives, Trump is using those who lost their lives as a way to make a broader argument that the media's criticism of him is unfair and biased.
Did he congratulate them on their recovery yet?
Who goes to the site of a natural disaster and calls on government officials to praise himself?
And people have the nerve to say he hasnt been given a chance. He is being given too much of a chance.
Who goes to the site of a natural disaster and calls on government officials to praise himself?
He always makes it about himself.
He's kinda busy congratulating himself and his staff at the moment.... But, he'll get to it....
Who goes to the site of a natural disaster and calls on government officials to praise himself?
A human disaster, that's who.
Trump , by his behavior, encourages Americans to treat Puerto Ricans as second class citizens.
I'd say trump like most humans "play" to the ones who can "give" in return. He is human after all. I think.
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Residents of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories do not have voting representation in the United States Congress , and are not entitled to electoral votes for President . The United States Constitution grants congressional voting representation to U.S. states , which Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories are not.
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PS: I see fault after fault with trump being president, being a human and actually having good intentions, I believe are some of his few saving grace qualities.
I can't stand either and would love to back it all up to a year or two before the last election and start over with different candidates...
LOL Anyone but ....these two.
LOL
Houston is largely built on a flood plain.
Fifty bucks says he had no idea Puerto Rico was part of the United States.
I think he still doesn't.
I think Puerto Rico would have been better off or at least no worse had Trump not gone there. Paper towels? Thrown food as if they're dogs? Trump is tone deaf to the max. Clue-less.
Well, PR did just throw the budget out of whack, so they were probably the generic paper towels.
Only 35.6 sq ft too. One ply.
I wonder how much Trump personally donated to Puerto Rican relief charities?
Do presidents do that ?
That could get costly if it was the norm. Damn costly.
In fact, let's not get that started.
We dont need a saddle like that for future presidents to have to deal with. And trump shouldn't have too either. That's not what he was hired for. That would actually be taking advantage of him to even ask. To any president.
If he is a billionaire , a 100,000 dollar donation to Red Cross would be 1/10,000 of his fortune.
Eventually he will donate about 10% of what he claims to donate, but it won't actually be his money.