I’ve never understood the need for the President to visit natural disaster sites.
A person with that large of an entourage is only going to make it more difficult on the people working to deal with the disaster. IMO, it would be better to let FEMA represent the Administration. The FEMA employees (supposedly) know what they’re doing and wouldn’t get in the way.
But what do I know?
The mediawhores created this perception monster so now every president needs to go and show himself in front of a disaster!
That's the exact line (concern) paid DNC trolls are parroting all over the internet today...
The best example I can give is:
When I was in Navy boot camp, it was 9 PM (or 2100 hours) when a whole bunch of us started showing signs of food poisoning. All of us that were getting sick (most of my 80 man company) were issued barf bags and bussed over to the hospital. When we got there, we were put into a triage area with several hundred other people. Every doctor and corpsman were called-in, and even medics from other bases were there to help.
It actually made me feel a lot better to see the base commander (a one-star admiral) there showing some command presence and doing what he could, which was taking direction from the senior doctor there, helping out, and going around talking to us guys that were down.
He wasn’t a doctor. He didn’t actually DO anything really, but it was comforting to us to see him there showing some command presence. He was in dress blue uniform because he was at a command function and left it to come over to the hospital. He didn’t just sit there at his cotillion slurping a champagne coulee and saying, “Eh, they got it covered.” It was cool of him to actually show up.
I agree, they shouldn't, but the rules were changed in 1992 after Hurricane Andrew. The State-Run Media used the disaster to go after Bush 43 for "not caring." It helped cost him the election.
The meme was repeated in 2005 after Katrina. Bush 45 didn't have his stuff together, and lots of people drowned, they said.
Trump learned how the game's played and showed up.
Because some folks feel better seeing a politician
Because some folks feel better seeing a politician