Posted on 10/04/2017 3:12:43 PM PDT by Ennis85
The mayor of Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, has described Donald Trump's visit to the hurricane-hit island as "insulting" and called him a "miscommunicator-in-chief". Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz described his televised meeting with officials as a "PR, 17-minute meeting". The sight of him throwing paper towels to people in the crowd was "terrible and abominable", she added. Mr Trump tweeted it had been a "great day" in Puerto Rico. But he also took another swipe at the reporting of his trip.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/915523382686478337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-us-canada-41504165
Tuesday's five-hour presidential trip to San Juan came two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, and followed complaints that the US government's handling of the storm's aftermath was too slow. Only 7% of the island has power and more remote parts of the island - a US territory - have been without food, water and basic medical aid.
Aleem Maqbool:
It may have been a "great day" in Puerto Rico for Donald Trump, but more than 90% of the 3 and a half million people living on this island remain without power and phone communications. It means many of them would not have heard his remark about how much the disaster in Puerto Rico was costing the US government. Nor would they have seen that he only visited Guaynabo, a wealthy part of town, and joked with people there that they no longer needed the torches being handed out. Many of those we have met who are aware of this week's visit say this is more evidence that the president views them as second-class American citizens.
During his televised meeting with emergency responders and officials of Puerto Rico, he went out of his way to praise - and seek compliments for - the federal response. "Every death is a horror," the president said,
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I find it funny that the liberals while about Trump being white but the mayor of San juan is a few shades lighter than Trump himself, but because she is useful sock puppet democrat the race baiting dems never seem to mention it...
She is a Democrat and has got her orders. Anything Trump says or doesn’t say, does or doesn’t do- is abominable.
How does a dingbat like that get elected? Oh, wait, nevermind /2008 /2012
I figured that she was auditioning for a run as Governor of the Great Sanctuary State of California.
This State doesn't seem to care much about borders - so her living all her life in Puerto Rico should not be an obstacle.
I have seen the video of this. It was edited to just show him tossing the paper towels. However they set up a long table with different items, corn meal or sugar, canned goods, the paper towels etc. he was to go down the table and he pass out the stuff which he did. The crowd was enthusiastic and when he got to the paper towels he just tossed them to the crowds delight. It was a bit of levity in the horrible situation.
I really hate the media, disgusting pigs every single one of them.
This is better than the golf ball. lol
I just saw the part where he lobbed the paper towels into the crowd, without sound. It seemed pretty obvious that it was meant in fun, and and my guess was that he was reacting to the mood of the crowd. It hardly seemed like the outrage the pearl-clutching critics made it out to be.
This woman is a sick retarded _itch.
She has no credibility, but the media likes her because she has the unreasonable hate for Trump they all share.
I wonder what she would have said if he’d thrown toilet paper.
I saw many posts on Facebook of picture of Bush and Obama hugging children, very compassionate faces, with a picture of President Trump throwing rolls of paper towels and they called it “Real Presidents hug while this .....(insert preferred insult) throws toilet paper”. Disgusting bastards and the whole world believes this because it is posted by “friends”.
The quicker picker-upper.
The first thing the aid workers should have done?
Pull the stick out of Mayor Carmen’s culo.
Next to a battery powered impact wrench, paper towels are this white man’s handiest helper.
This is worse than two scoops of ice cream! Impeach him!
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