Posted on 09/02/2017 12:39:33 PM PDT by bryan999
HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump flew to Houston on Saturday to meet with victims of Hurricane Harvey and see the effects of the record-setting storm while he presses for a multi-billion-dollar aid package.
Trump, facing the first natural disaster of his administration, was joined by his wife, Melania, as he passed out food and hugged, kissed and played with children at Houston's NRG Center, a 700,000-square-foot (65,000 square meter) facility that is now the city's largest emergency shelter.
Trump, who is making his second trip to the stricken state this week, asked Congress late on Friday for an initial $7.85 billion for hurricane recovery efforts. The request comes as Washington faces tough budget negotiations.
Trump told reporters at the center that his administration was moving fast to provide the financing for aid to the devastated region.
"We are signing a lot of documents to get money," he said.
Trump appeared relaxed as he posed for photographs with volunteers and chatted with those relocated to the shelter alongside Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Melania, the sleeves of her blue denim shirt rolled up, hugged a woman and chatted with a child.
"It has been a wonderful thing," Trump said of his meetings with the children as he helped serve food to evacuees amid shouts of "Thank you, sir."
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Wow. Looks like hurricanes do the exact opposite of tornadoes. Those mobile homes would have attracted a twister and they would be splinters. Here, those mobile homes must have opposite magnetic polarity and repelled the hurricane, but the house was splintered.
That is great...but what the major, most important issue is, was she wearing high heels??? /s
The media is ridiculous.
Seriously, I feel bad for her. She seems like a warm, lovely, intelligent woman who is being beaten by the press. Just the same as her husband is. It is outrageous.
I agree.
It's always the seriousness of the charge! LOL!
Your post made me laugh. :) Take care, FRiend! :)
Great that President Trump’s lifetime experience in building he will understand perfectly everything about Houston rebuilding...and the damge done.
Laz.....even you would not hit Maxine...right ?
As my outraged friend declared....”Those heels speak six languages!”
Was that today ?
Lots of concern between the lines in this article.
The narrative will be that he went there because of criticism.
He announced that he was going there today before he even came there the first time.
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