Posted on 08/29/2017 4:25:45 PM PDT by mandaladon
President Donald Trump traveled to Texas today to survey the damage from Hurricane Harvey and be briefed on the storm relief efforts. During a stop in Corpus Christi, the president treated it much like a campaign rally, highlighting the size of the crowd that turned out to watch him speak.
This afternoon, CNN senior White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny remarked that in his reaction to the historic storm so far, POTUS appears to be more focused on the emergency response, businesses and his crowds as opposed to the victims themselves.
Reporting from Austin, where the president was scheduled to arrive at the states emergency command center, Zeleny provided the following observation to CNN anchor Brianna Keilar:
One thing I am struck by here, seeing all the stories of emotion, all the stories of loss, of devastation still unfolding we do not know the extent of the damage here very little in terms of empathy from this president. Very little in terms of emotion or talking directly to the people of Texas. Hes been talking about the businesses, talking about the response and his crowd. Certainly, this is a test, a new moment for this president. But how hell ultimately be judged, Brianna, as every president is in a disaster like this, is not on today, its on the response and the recovery and how Texas rebuilds if they get federal funds, et cetera, months, perhaps even years, from now.
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Unreal.
I wish he could just be struck by lightening.
Apparently newsmen are paid to find new ways to paint Trump in a negative way. Wish they would report rather than create news.
He was in a meeting room with the officials.
Even Antifa can’t save these bastards if they keep poking the hornets’ nest.
Let AT&T know how you feel about this POS.
Precisely!
Some say he went too late, some say he went too early and this genius says not enough empathy...They're all sick bastards.
WHO is a gay twerp..?!
Governing with empathy is a symptom of manipulators and opportunists in power who’s focus is on never letting a crisis go to waste, instead of delivering meaningful results to a region damaged.
When the truth gets in the way, simply ignore it and make stuff up.
When the final obituary is written for the MSM statement like this will be use to show they committed suicide by abandoning all pretense of being neutral in their reporting.
Let me guess, I bet he was in awe of Ray Nagin back in the day.
You should be “struck”.....by a semi
Of course he did. Haters gonna hate.
I might have stopped....at the odd highway rest stop, a time or two, yes....A clutch of them. But only on every weekend.
Why do you ask...?
Jeff, if it were not for FR I would not have a damn clue what the network is saying and once again, I don’t give a damn.
What did he want Trump to say and do?
Trump did everything possible to get the help needed for those impacted.
“George Bush hates black people!”
Believe it or not Jeff, POTUS Trump can’t suddenly become emotionally preoccupied with every dramatic human event to come along. That kind of thing is not for leaders. You want your leadership to keep it safe for the women and children to be able to do that. Do you see how that works?
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