As Florence looms, Trump says response was 'incredibly successful' last year in Puerto Rico,...
Source: The Washington Post
As Florence looms, Trump says response was incredibly successful last year in Puerto Rico, which saw nearly 3,000 excess deaths
By Washington Post Staff
September 11 at 4:03 PM
In remarks in the Oval Office, President Trump said his administrations response to Hurricane Maria last year was an incredible, unsung success and also incorrectly suggested that Puerto Rico had virtually no electricity prior to the storm.
It was one of the best jobs thats ever been done with respect to what this is all about, Trump said. He was speaking in response to questions from reporters after receiving a briefing on Hurricane Florence.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
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With Hurricane Florence churning toward the Carolinas, President Trump declared Tuesday that the government is absolutely, totally prepared for a storm expected to bring destructive winds and catastrophic flooding
Were ready. FEMA is ready. Everybody is ready, Trump said, referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
We have everybody standing by. We hope for the best, he said. Theres a chance it could be a very bad one, as youve probably heard. .?.?. But we are absolutely, totally prepared.
Trump made his brief comments at Joint Base Andrews as he returned to the Washington area after a trip to Pennsylvania, where he participated in a memorial service for those who perished on Flight 93 amid the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Trump was responding to a reporters question.
Up until that point, the president had said relatively little about the hurricane, even as it started to dominate news coverage.
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TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)How does this jerk get away with the things he says?
olegramps
(8,200 posts)It was different than Bush-Cheney administration that was greeting the New Orleans disaster as a grand opportunity to realign the vote by helping the Blacks to relocate a thousand of miles away. They worked closely with the insurance companies to provide data that their houses hadn't been affected by the hurricane but homeowners neglect. They just fell down by normal gust of 120 miles an hour.
progree
(10,908 posts)levees, what levees?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They aren't just variations on the truth, they are complete fabrications. I hate him so much!
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)Doesnt mean it was good...he has done zero good things.
Juneboarder
(1,732 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)This is like if Bush went on TV right now and said the Iraq war was incredibly successful.
atreides1
(16,079 posts)And in Trump world those aren't really people!!!!
BumRushDaShow
(129,053 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,299 posts)"Mission Accomplished"?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)but they are GOP so that is OK now.
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)Such an ass! But this storm will likely be handled better since the population is preponderantly white.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)The storm response will be top notch, not because they care, but because they know their asses are on the line with midterms around the corner.
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)GWB after Katrina
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Fortunately there are many white people living in the region, and at least two Trump properties (a golf course and a hotel), so he might actually give a shit this time.
Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It's an old dictator rule. Putin employs it. Trump has used it for years. If something is bad press for you, say what you want the "truth" to be, and repeat it over and over. In time, people will believe it.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,149 posts)Very successful! Most successful catastrophe in the history of catastrophic successes... /s
RussBLib
(9,019 posts)Come on, people (reporters), there are 30 of you and one of him, lying his stupid ass off again right to your face!!
Geez, speak up! Somebody!
lark
(23,102 posts)I met a man from PUerto Rico, drumpfs' FEMA refused to let him drive his 62 trucks into the mountains to bring food and water where there was zero. They only used trucks they brought and those were just a few and they didn't go deep in the mountains where the need was the greatest. They let tons of food waste rather than release the gas to him. No materials could be shipped to the island, they had to come here, be loaded on separate ships (big corp. ships), so they cost 2x what they should and hindered the reconstruction. Then, as a final murdering effort, they gave the contract to rebuild the electrical grid to Ryan Zinke's est friend & neighbor who had 7 ee and the company totally failed in it's efforts and still billed Puerto Rico millions for doing next to nothing. Everything they put up failed within a short time because their work was so slip shod and unprofessional. He didn't do this to FL or TX (because those states voted for him) but shit on PR for 2 reasons - they are Hispanic and they can't vote. If they could vote, it would be a different story. I'm just praying the 200,000 that came to FL vote Democrat. He's afraid of that and has removed their housing to try to drive them back to PR, the evil evil racist murderer.
Nitram
(22,803 posts)We're looking at an impending crisis and hope to hell you get out of the way and let FEMA and the National Guard do their thing.
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)kyburbonkid
(251 posts)Incredibly successful at throwing a roll of paper towels 5 ft!
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)About to lose the house and senate, and soon after that your life will return to non-stop investigations, just like before the erection. Your body is a flabby mess, your health is on the verge of collapse, and your family is circling you like vultures, wondering if theyll inhert infinite debt or a few million devalued dollars. And nobody but the idiots you despise is fooled by you.