Trump slams Puerto Rico

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-slams-puerto-rico-‘they-want-everything-to-be-done-for-them’/ar-AAsE1xP?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

So, after a few days of actually acting like a human being Trump returns to his true self. How low can this man sink and how much of this complete and utter abnegation of any of the duty he promised to take on when he ran for President will he continue to display? Shame on you, Republicans, for giving us this total moral reprobate who is now attacking people in the direst straits people can be in through no fault of their own. How can you live with yourselves after foisting this uncaring excuse for a member of humanity on us?

 

Shame on you for believing MSN.COM

 

Try twitter.com

 

My jaw literally dropped reading those tweets. The recent interviews with the mayor were so nakedly emotional, so clearly desperate for her island, and he responds like this?? It's astounding.

 

The combined tweets, for your edification:

"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. 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 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. The military and first responders, despite no electric, roads, phones etc., have done an amazing job. Puerto Rico was totally destroyed."

And by the way, those tweets all have about 15,000 likes

 

Decade after decade after decade PR failed to plan for its citizens the inevitable. What was PR emergency plan? Yes, we all help but what plan was in place for the expected is the questions PR citizens and CONUS should be asking.

Hold local government accountable. Vote 'em out.

 

If Americans start dying on PR the BLOTUS will be held accountable by the electorate in 2018.

 

The Jones Act has been a huge problem for the PR economy for 100 years.

 

Blame the victims?

Yes, I am expecting that the American electorate will try to vote out the GOP in 2018 for sheer incompetence if nothing else.

 

Fine, just give your opinion on what Trump himself wrote.

 

Complete and utter abnegation? That would mean doing nothing. That's how you see Trump's response?

My only surprise is that liberals actually believe that normal people will believe this claptrap. (Obviously the liberals themselves will slam Trump whatever he does.)

Trump's point is that you need to organize locally and help yourselves and your people first, as did the Houstonians. There is a lot of federal help on the ground in PR already, though.

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Trump is Trump.. and it takes a real pig to blame the victims.

 

Show me how the Jones Act effected emergency planning and acquisition?

 

LMAO......she held an emotional press conference ripping Trump, huh?

She is talking about inefficiency. Yet she doesn't want to point to where one major problem is.

Puerto Rico Emergency Management Agency. Otherwise known as PREMA.

The ones directing what goes where and when. The one handling all the ports that are open and up and running.

 

PR and the leftist have a scapeggoat now. Wasnt PR in 15 billion in debt before Trump? No sense of accountability as usual. I guess since Trump didn’t teleport everything instantaneously he’s evil.

 

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The President was right on point. The mayor of San Juan is on record saying he had no idea how bad things were until just a few days ago. What kind of leadership is that?

The people of PR should be comforted that help is on the island and over time, things will improve.

 

So you support Trump's comments?

 

I will ask one more time Margot, prove the Jones act effected state emergency plan and acquisition.

 

They're not whining, they're dying.

Trump himself admits that one of the major problems is the complete destruction of the power grid, what does he want the people there to do, get on bicycles hooked to generators like in Soylent Green?

Trump is doing as little as he can and acting like everything is fine, but this is one situation where bullshit will not substitute for actuality. People are dying while Trump goes on about how football isn't the same without brain damage, how can anyone ever vote Republican again?

 

Hahaha. FEMA could deliver a million mobile homes and generators, similar to efforts post Katrina, and return in ten years to find that Puerto Rico had become the worlds largest trailer park.

 

Thank you for proving my point.

 

My opinion is that the existing government of PR is a bunch of incompetents and Trump is willing to say it out loud, and only because she insinuated that he doesn't care about the people of PR.

The problem predates the hurricane.

Consider the financial crisis PR.

"Some newspapers, such as El Vocero, have stated that the main problem is local government inefficiency rather than lack of funds. As an example, the Department of Treasury of Puerto Rico is incapable of collecting 44% of the Puerto Rico Sales and Use Tax (or about $900 million), did not match what taxpayers reported to the department with the income reported by the taxpayer's employer through Form W-2s, and did not collect payments owed to the department by taxpayers that submitted tax returns without their corresponding payments. The treasury department also tends to publish its comprehensive annual financial reports(CAFRs) late, sometimes 15 months after a fiscal year ends, while the government as a whole constantly fails to comply with its continuing disclosure obligations on a timely basis. Furthermore, the government's accounting, payroll and fiscal oversight information systems and processes also have deficiencies that significantly affect its ability to forecast expenditures.

Similarly, salaries for government employees tend to be quite disparate when compared to the private sector and other positions within the government itself. For example, a public teacher's base salary starts at $24,000 while a legislative advisor starts at $74,000."

 

Vote out the incompetent PR government, PR has and deserves better.

 

So you are saying those aren't his tweets.

 

And his comment that democrats told her to be nasty to him?