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Trump is reportedly upset about old video footage showing him throwing rolls of paper towels at first-responders in Puerto Ricohttps://www.businessinsider.com/trump-angry-at-paper-towel-throw-footage-hurricanes-florence-maria-2018-9
As Hurricane Florence continued its destructive path in North and South Carolina on Friday, President Donald Trump has reportedly been fixated on unflattering news reports about his response to Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico in September 2017.
Trump has particularly been irritated by video footage of him throwing rolls of paper towels to a crowd of relief workers on the island, according to a Washington Post report published Thursday. Trump had characterized his gestures as good-natured, but the footage prompted accusations that Trump lacks empathy.
"They had these beautiful, soft towels. Very good towels," Trump said during an interview with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in October. "And I came in and there was a crowd of a lot of people. And they were screaming and they were loving everything. I was having fun, they were having fun. They said, 'Throw 'em to me! Throw 'em to me Mr. President!'"
"The next day they said, 'Oh, it was so disrespectful to the people,'" he added. "It was just a made-up thing."
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Idgit
yup
no_hypocrisy
(46,191 posts)(I know, I know, I know . . . . )
For someone like Trump to claim he's so media savvy, how he couldn't have figured out the optics of throwing paper towels in a situation concerning destruction, floods, mayhem, injury, and death is beyond me.
Ohiogal
(32,066 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)He frequently stumbles badly, and this is really typical.
I'm sure the "how he couldn't have figured out" is that he can't. He doesn't think and react as more normal people do. He's had a lifetime of doing normal, like all of us, and has become very good at it for most situations. But the presidency puts him in a lot of different ones, with special standards and expectations of behavior that he really doesn't get.
Like this one. He certainly already knew perfectly well that he had to hide his contempt and callous disregard for low people and undoubtedly thought he was.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Wish we had a law to arrest him for disturbing the peace. He does it every damn day, pathological liar.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)a president would be throwing paper towels to hurricane responders and then talking about it later as just having some fun. Please let it be over soon.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,576 posts)Girard442
(6,085 posts)Gothmog
(145,563 posts)Blue Owl
(50,505 posts)n/t