It’ll be funny if (when?) it turns out the governor hasn’t spoken to anyone in the administration and was being facetious.
He has actually spoken to the press and was being… generous to the admin. not gushing, but generous - which I don’t blame him as he/they NEED fed gov. help (not biting the hand, and all that.)
Easy to criticize a response that seemed primarily focused on the NFL. Here’s an idea: push for the complete removal of the Jones Act. And put a few people on figuring out how to rebuild the power infrastructure to the benefit of the residents, not just your billionaire donors.
Dear Dotard J Trump,
Don’t blame the media for your decision to ignore the Cat 5 landfall of Maria on Puerto Rico, and instead spend all weekend escalating your tweeting about the NFL. No mention of Puerto Rico, by you, for DAYS afterwards. You couldn’t even be bothered to consider lifting the Jones act until after the press raised the critical issue with you - and then you blamed the lack of action, that was taken for Harvey and Irma, on shipping companies - not your inattention and indifference.
We know you don’t own mistakes, because in your warped little mind you are incapable of mistakes (or you just erase them like your Luther Strange Tweets), but to much of the country, and the world - You Own This Lethally slow response.
As a human being, let alone as a president, your actions and inaction are indecent.
You can help Puertorriquenos by contributing to the (PR) First Lady’s relief fund or via Hispanic Federation.org.
The First Lady’s fund works thru Paypal or an electronic transfer to the bank. Hispanic Federation takes credit cards online.
Might want to bookmark the Hispanic Federation site. They have a list of causes and issues you can direct your donation to: Puerto Rico relief, Mexican earthquake relief, DACA legal defense, Immigrants…
And since you spend most of your waking hours on Twitter, follow this reporter:
Well, sure. Most adults understand that even rage-storming criticism is usually couched in complimentary terms—“You’ve done a great job so far, and generally I’m very pleased, but there are a couple of things still to address” and so forth when privately you’re tossing chairs around the office. But Trump uses it to absolve himself of any blame or lack and if he doesn’t have it to use he’ll make it up. There’s plenty of objective evidence the intact parts of the government wanted to get going strongly right away but the administration’s response was notably passive and unconcerned.
In general when dealing with a vindictive, overbearing, narcissistic, ignorant. lying low life individual that you need for some purpose you verbalize your thoughts very carefully. Just sayin’ … that is particularly true if a lot of people depend on that individuals attitude of the moment … bigly.
this will be interesting
Because whining about fairness is a great way for the President of the United States to look tough in the eyes of the country and the world.
Jackass.
Even if the relief effort were going swimmingly, which it clearly isn’t, this isn’t the time for back patting. Sure it’s a tough job to get supplies to an island without power, with many roads impassible and myriad other problems. But it isn’t about you Donnie. Do the job you were elected to do, stop tweeting and speaking about the NFL or resign and run for Commissioner, and when every Puerto Rican has power, water, food, shelter, medicine, etc. then we can assess the recovery effort and if it really was as good as you say, I’ll be the first to say, “Trump is a crooked Russian stooge, completely clueless about governing, but I’ll give him credit for running a decent relief operation”.
thank you for sharing that link
thank you for sharing those links.
… the bare minimum required to avoid being criticized by Fox News.
I get why Rossello wants to maybe stay on this administration’s good side, but seeing how his positive responses were being blown up by San Juan’s mayor and others…next week will be very intervesting.
Thanks for the link. I’ve been to the west end of Puerto Rico a few times, spent a couple of vacations in Rincon, and flew into Aguadilla (the airport is a former military base and very convenient to avoid San Juan traffic). Such a beautiful place, La Isla de Encanta. I wonder how many of the places I remember are gone. Stay strong Mr. Mayor!
Hey Two Scoops, seems like another Administration got it right in an actual foreign country rather than one that you and your sad anti-American supporters just thought was a foreign country. Your planning for meaningful military deployments, assistance with relief distribution, waiving the Jones Act, deployment of necessary US Navy assets, etc. should have been in place 2-3 days before Maria made landfall and put into action as the storm was passing over the island. Instead, you squandered that time and 8 days after it with no plan, almost no knowledge, and completely conflicting statements from one day to the next (the USS Comfort isn’t going, except it is; the Jones Act won’t be waived because the shipping industry doesn’t want it waived, except now it will be; there are plenty of resources in PR, except there aren’t),
Congratulations on proving yet again what a huge incompetent, narcissistic dipshit you are (likely vindictive too since PR went for “Little Marco”, amiright?).
Donnie has some pals who loan money. Maybe not at reasonable rates, though…
Different day, same Trump.