He's making it clear that his policy is to reward and punish states and territories based on their level of political support or criticism of him.

Ukrainians were disloyal and didn't appreciate Stalin enough....therefore, when the grain was collectivized, he made to it that Ukrainians didn't get any, and millions starved.

if he thought it would bring him any advantage. n/t

Puerto Rico is the USA, idiot.

Gee, what's wrong with that, other than the fact PUERTO RICANS ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS.

You dumb shit.

that he is pulling the $91 billion amount out of his ass?

Don't forget, he has a rather large ass, so he can store a lot of shit in there.

because I'm in the office and found $36.5 billion in total, but that was for Puerto Rico and other areas hit by natural disasters.

They're hurting all right, but not because of aid to Puerto Rico, you evil maggot.

Of course, he'll never take responsibility for that.

Why spend more money on these brown people when "real states" are more deserving...this ignorant, racist asshole continues to show his true colors.

a woman was criticizing him.

Ben Gotten for Ben Ghazzi

That 91 billion is the damage, you orange 💩🧠. They got 1.5 in aid.

The federal government's response to hurricanes Harvey and Irma on the mainland was faster and more "generous" — in terms of resources and funds — than its assistance to Puerto Rico before and in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, according to a newly released study.


By analyzing federal spending estimates and other statistics, researchers at the University of Michigan found significant differences between the aid Texas and Florida received after the two states were hit by powerful storms and the assistance dispatched to Puerto Rico when María struck the island and U.S. territory in the fall of 2017.

"The federal government responded on a larger scale and much more quickly across measures of federal money and staffing to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in Texas and Florida, compared with Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico," researchers wrote in the report. "The variation in the responses was not commensurate with storm severity and need after landfall in the case of Puerto Rico compared with Texas and Florida."

According to the study, within nine days of landfall in the U.S. for Harvey and Irma, survivors in Texas and Florida received approximately $100 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds, while María survivors received about $6 million in FEMA assistance in the same amount of time.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-puerto-rico-received-slower-less-generous-federal-disaster-aid-than-texas-florida/

and lots of traffic light signals have not been replaces...but Venezuela

Kudos to his speech writers