“John Legend tweeted criticism of Trump’s tweet: ‘POS POTUS insults Puerto Rico while they’re going through a terrible humanitarian crisis.’
(I read the entire article and nowhere did Trump “insult” PR. Simply statued they owned BILLIONS they’ve yet to repay.)
I think the comment about debt crisis in PR is that there is nowhere to borrow any more money to recover now, so US government will bare the majority of expense, as they are US Citizens. May as well at some point make them a state, and get the taxes collected after recovery to make way for new services like electricity and phones, etc. This will be 10X more expensive than Harvey in TX, or Maria in Florida/southeast.
Maybe dropping supplies by aircraft/helicopter in isolated areas would help, so those suffering get some relief in PR would be a good decision for Trump. FEMA will do well in cities and towns, but rural looks like a real challenge to get to via pics on internet.
No Trump did not insult PR, it was to start a conversation about how will we get money and how will PR ever pay back their debts now?
If Clinton were president, Puerto Rico would be given a bailout, potentially using global warming settlements as cover by saying it is our fault the hurricane hit you, here’s all the money to cover your debts and rebuild, too.