The real reason Trump downplayed the disaster of Hurricane Maria..

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_the_United_States_by_death_toll

....Look carefully at the above chart. Look at numbers 4 and 5 on the list of disasters.. Trump probably was told that Hurricane Maria was an epic disaster that killed thousands.
(no I do NOT know this. It is"SPECULATION ONLY" ) about what Trump was told(after all, that is what we do here, speculate and discuss)

...Why? The people who live in Puerto Rico must have informed him of the incredible nature of death and destruction. So, he downplayed it. He didn't want to look bad. It was on his watch.. Why give the true number of deaths? Just come up with some number that looks bad, but not too bad. Why would he be told this?..Well.. Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America..a territory, just like Hawaii and Alaska were before they became states.
.... So, as leader of the country that Puerto Rico is part of, Trump would be told..The people living there are citizens of the U.S.A..English and Spanish are spoken there..Is that correct? Puerto Rico is part of the U.S.A...Many of us have friends and relatives living there. Lots of connections there just like in Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, or New York......again, Puerto Rico is part of the U.S.A.

....So, it took months to come up with a number that might be correct..Something like 1400, but no proof. That is the number of deaths we all believed during the spring and early summer..(again, I am not an expert on this)

So last August, after a study was concluded by a very high quality study group from George Washington University, the number of deaths almost reached 3000. ....2982...to be exact.... Yet, there is little understanding of what that means...

so here it is: ....That is the same number that were killed on the 9/11 attack on New York City. Hurricane Maria was that great a disaster.

Yes, it was not covered as much. And yes, we didn't see most of the death and destruction, only some coverage in Puerto Rico...But that disaster was downplayed by the President of the United States. 64 deaths is not 2947 deaths...(also, the media has lots of connections in NYC, not so many in Puerto Rico)

Why? (and this is speculation also) and I hate to say this but, I don't think Trump cares about Puerto Rico. Who knows? But he did not act like he cared. Did he? The media did not give it as much coverage as 9/11 for lots of reasons to be discussed at another time..

(I discovered the similarities in death, by looking at that chart above at the link) I didn't see the connection until today and that is the truth. But I am not the only one. The media has never reported, as far as I can tell, the similarities in the number of deaths from the two disaster.. Why did I look at that? I was researching deaths from Maria and the Indonesia disaster, and stumbled on that chart.. then I saw the connection.