While the people of Puerto Rico try desperately to survive the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria, President Trump woke up on Saturday morning, grabbed his cell phone, and began attacking the people of the island territory.
Apparently Trump got his feelings hurt when the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz, said on Friday that “people are dying” in Puerto Rico and directly criticizing the president by commenting:
“We are not as second-class citizens, but as animals that can be disposed of.”
As is typical of the thin-skinned, hate-filled Trump, he lashed out at both Cruz and a country that is already reeling, tweeting out:
The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017
Notice how Trump went straight to his old fallback position, the conspiracy theory? Since Mayor Cruz dared to say something about how the people of Puerto Rico need help and aid, suddenly she was told to do so by Democrats.
But Trump was far from finished alienating Puerto Ricans, adding this:
…Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017
…want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017
Not content with the venom he’d spewed, Trump kept tweeting:
The military and first responders, despite no electric, roads, phones etc., have done an amazing job. Puerto Rico was totally destroyed.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017
Fake News CNN and NBC are going out of their way to disparage our great First Responders as a way to "get Trump." Not fair to FR or effort!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017
Again you can see Trump refusing to accept any of the blame and instead trying desperately to pretend that if anyone is critical of him, they’re actually disparaging the first responders who are in Puerto Rico doing their best. But that completely misses the point of how tepid the response from the federal government has been. Why doesn’t he tell the American military to airlift supplies of food and water into Puerto Rico?
The United States is undoubtedly the greatest country in the world. But we’re being led by a man who isn’t smart enough to tie his own shoes.
This article was originally published by the same author at LiberalAmerica.org