He never said it wasn’t a “real catastrophe”, doesn’t comparing it to a catastrophe make it also a catastrophe?
Having said that, the current death toll for Puerto Rico is 16 with 30 missing. Even if that number triples it still does not come close to the over 1,200 fatalities the victims of Katrina suffered. While it is a tragedy , the President was only referring to scale, that’s it. The President was stating a fact, like it or not.
He said when you compare it with a "real catastrophe like Katrina."
We all know what he meant. We all know what Todd Akins meant when he talked about "legitimate rape". But what he meant and what he said sound like two different things. And the Democrats will use it against him.