Donald Trump woke up from a fitful night’s sleep early Saturday morning. Was he supposed to be somewhere? Where was the remote control? Fox News or something. Then he remembered: he was in Bedminster, New Jersey, at his opulent golf course, his 67th visit to a golf course since he became #NotMyPresident. He also remembered something dreadful: all of those awful brown people – who claimed to be American citizens, although he really needed to see their papers – crying and wailing and pretending to be in such awful circumstances. Some woman was on television the night before, begging and pleading for the lives of her fellow Puerto Ricans. What a bitch. Then Trump picked up his phone and began tweeting. This is what he wrote throughout Saturday:
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.
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! I will be going to Puerto Rico on Tuesday with Melania. Will hopefully be able to stop at the U.S. Virgin Islands (people working hard). The Fake News Networks are working overtime in Puerto Rico doing their best to take the spirit away from our soldiers and first R’s. Shame! Despite the Fake News Media in conjunction with the Dems, an amazing job is being done in Puerto Rico. Great people! The Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, is a great guy and leader who is really working hard. Thank you Ricky!
My Administration, Governor @RicardoRossello, and many others are working together to help the people of Puerto Rico in every way………#FakeNews critics are working overtime, but we’re getting great marks from the people that truly matter! We must all be united in offering assistance to everyone suffering in Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the wake of this terrible disaster. Results of recovery efforts will speak much louder than complaints by San Juan Mayor. Doing everything we can to help great people of PR!
Of course he was going to attack the woman. The woman who was critical of his response. The Hispanic woman. It was utterly predictable, that he would get on Twitter and MOCK the woman who is merely begging for Trump to work harder to save the lives of Americans. It’s like that bitch doesn’t know that Puerto Rico “is an island, surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.” Trump literally said that on Friday. He said that as an explanation for why his administration has been utterly negligent. BIG WATER. OCEAN WATER.
Obviously, people had feelings about Trump’s attacks on Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Puerto Rico. Also: you can go here to read about some of the charities which are working in Puerto Rico, which are in need of donations.
You're going straight to hell, @realDonaldTrump.
No long lines for you.
Someone will say, "Right this way, sir."
They'll clear a path. https://t.co/xXfJH0KJmw— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) September 30, 2017
She has been working 24/7.
You have been GOLFING.
You're going straight to hell.
Fastest golf cart you ever took. https://t.co/5hOY23MBvQ— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) September 30, 2017
You literally sent this from a golf course you fat bigot https://t.co/M8wTmZFARU
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) September 30, 2017
The Jews don't need your stupid thoughts, go help Puerto Rico. https://t.co/il9CPO1xhO
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) September 29, 2017
I this it's clear where the 'poor leadership' lies @realDonaldTrump Puerto Rico is part of the United States. This is our responsibility.
— xoxo, Gaga (@ladygaga) September 30, 2017
Dear @realDonaldTrump,
While you tweet from your golf club, the Mayor of San Juan is saving lives. You've done NOTHING.
Sincerely,
America pic.twitter.com/4c2aBjtXl7— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) September 30, 2017
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Please let me wake from this nightmare that is Trump.
Me, too, David. Me, too.
He is despicable in every way, I just hope he gets what is coming to him, lazy lowlife scum.
I know. I think this one hurts the worst of all. His cruelty is astounding. And this is one of those instances where we’re not just speaking in abstracts, the fact that Donald Trump is president is literally killing people, as we speak. I am so f*cking mad at the people who elected him right now. IMO, they and their leader all have blood on their hands in this. This is what happens when you elect a president who has an open disdain for brown people.
I’ve reached the point where I am ok not seeing my family members who voted and continue to support him. Imo they are as twisted and sociopathic as him. I don’t want to waste my time on such people. 😡
Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are already hated by #notmypresident and its cult minons. These two “men” need to stand up and tell him to apologize for this treatment of PR. That’s all. Take a stand. A real one. For once.
I can’t listen to him speak anymore. All. He. Does. Is. Lie. I hate him and he needs to go to jail. And then this morning I had to listen to my in laws making excuses about why supplies aren’t reaching people in need word for word out of the Fox Propaganda machine. It was at one of my kid’s sporting events so I’m not debating anyone because I’m there to watch my kid. So I pretended not to hear and didn’t acknowledge what was said. And then I was all, oh I’m trying to hear the score announced and it worked beautifully lol!!!
Every single day is worse that the one before. How low can this useless, POS go.
Next up, war.
My hate for this man is twisting my gut. I can’t even think straight when he appears on my computer screen or on my television.
What an utter pile of garbage.
Same. I hate him with the energy of a thousand suns.
I understand and get every negative comment about Trump. I pray every day that this is all a dream but Its not and that being said I believe in God and I have faith and I always remember what my Mamma said “God don’t like ugly” so I chose to leave everything in his hands and I have to believe and have faith.so I’m here to say please people have faith not in Trump but in whatever God has in store for him.Because God doesn’t like ugly and Trump is ugly plus more
I hear you. I loathe him with such intensity that it’s almost scary. It’s a visceral reaction to evil.
I’ve honestly never hated someone as much as I hate Trump. My blood boils with anger when I hear or see anything about him, but reading news about Trump has become an obsession of mine. Listening to his supporters defend his dangerous foolishness really gets me upset.
Don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t know there were people like you guys who felt the same as me about Trump
I totally agree- I’ve never in my life felt this way about anyone but I actually feel my stomach knot and my jaw clench whenever I see him. But I feel like we are all so powerless to stop him- it’s like being in an abusive relationship we cannot escape. We disagree with him and he calls us #fakenews, we point out that he is wrong with evidence and his supporters hang up with their cognitive dissonance and their #whataboutism. I despair of the world. Looking at Obama and prince harr pictures takes my mind off it for a minute, so thanks for that celebitchy. But I am sad for the world that this human can wreak havoc with what should be the greatest and most sacred political office in the world 😔. Prayers for poor Puerto Rico 😔
I have to mute the tv when the orange menace is on the screen. He just makes my blood boil.
It was a week before my best friend heard from her father, who lives south of Mayaguez. He’s OK, his house is still standing, but he hasn’t had electricity since Irma hit. She’s desperate to get him to the mainland, to live with her until things get better.
And my husband has decided that Lin-Manuel Miranda is my new boyfriend. I laughed at him and told him that he was two years behind the times. LMM has been my crush for a Loooong time.
Liz, crush and NATIONAL TREASURE. One of the people who give us hope.
I like your husband. You’re both lucky I”m willing to share LMM.
@beth I decided there’s no way I will let Trump ruin lifelong friendships. Then he (& evil) wins. (Oops! This is for below…)
I loved his tweets, he is really mad.
I hate him so much. He makes me so angry! I have a hair trigger temper now and have gotten into explosive fights over this moron. I have to find peace somehow but it’s impossible with this degenerate piece of shit and his moronic and racist comments flowing like the Mississippi.
I can’t believe how easily I lose my temper now. I’ve always been able to control myself and just walk away when I start getting frustrated and angry, but not anymore. Ending longtime friendships with people I love, screaming, crying fights with family members, and arguments with complete strangers have become a regular thing for me since Trump divided our country. I desperately hope this stressful nightmare ends soon when Republicans finally admit that Trump is unable to handle his job and impeach the prick
The fact that he continues GOLFING is just…I don’t even have the words for how despicable this man is.
There’s not many people on this planet that I truly feel like I hate. But I hate this sick f*ck. As a liberal, a woman and a POC with Puerto Rican family, I feel like I’ve been personally insulted by this sack of sh!t innumerable times. And homie don’t play that. I’m a civil, thoughtful, responsible, good citizen. But really I’d like to fight him and his entire family. I have enough rage built up that I could probably kick all of their a$$es simultaneously.
I will not be satisfied until this abomination dies in prison. If there’s any justice in this world, he will pay for his myriad sins and crimes.
I was coming here to say how much I hate him and the people that allowed this disaster. I loathe his voters, the complicit GOP and the third party idiots that threw the margins in key swing states. Utter rage.
When LIN the positivity man on twitter goes off you must be a monster. I’ve never seen him outright call someone out like that.
I’m on the hate train, too. It disturbs me to realize I can hate this much but when someone promises to rebuild Houston and make it “better than ever,” then flips the bird to Puero Rico, I see red.
My hatred for this orange maggot juice is stunning. Im literally stunned at how much I want him to feel only pain forever.
Same, and for some reason that fact that it is now October — and starting to get a bit chilly out again — is bringing me right back to fall 2016, a time I wished never to revisit. It’s bringing home the fact that it’s been almost a year and this piece of shit is still our POTUS. I used to love autumn and now I associate it with this living nightmare.
Last January, I never, ever thought he would have lasted this long. Would have thought he’d be long gone by now.
But no, he’s still our “President,” despite the fact that he has surpassed all of our worst fears as to how horrific his tenure could be.
It takes a lot for Lin MM to get that mad, and he (justifiably) lost it. I also vehemently agreed with Kim K’s tweet to Trump over this — I never thought I’d be “Team Kim Kardashian” but here we are. She was making more sense than our President was, FFS.
Jesus Christ you guys. How do we come back from this?
Agreed – never EVER been on KK’s side about anything. But I was really amazed that she spoke out against him on this. Well done, girl.
I have never hated someone as much as I hate him, he makes my skin crawl.
My unborn child hates Trump! She kicks the hell out of me when I read his stories–must stop, ahhhhhhhh!
Ouch! You must be getting bruised bigly from all that kicking. So sorry about the pain
Ha! Thank you.
Oh. My. God. The sooner this clown is seen to, the better. I don’t care anymore how he’s sorted. Just do it.
What a prick. American citizens need help and all he cares about is that everybody praises him and pats him on a the back.
Also Peurto Ricans are lazy and Blacks are SOBs and Mexicans are Racists and all Middle Easterners (with the exception of the Gulf monarchs who lap up his terrible brand because they’re stupid) are terrorists, but the unemployed, heavily armed high school drop outs running meth labs in middle America are awesome because they voted for him. What a prick.
Those monarchs aren’t stupid. They are smart. They kissed up to him to get what they wanted. A billion dollar arms deal. And now he loosening the restrictions on international arm sales expect to see American weapons in the hands of terrorists to be used against us. What happened to America First?
And don’t forget-women are a number-one to ten.
At first I couldn’t believe Lin-Manuel tweeted that–in interviews he is so intensely positive about people. Then I cheered his brave, totally appropriate comment. drump is going straight to hell for his contempt for the PR people and their suffering.
drump is also dictating that NFL players stand, (PR) women want everything for nothing, and the Dems set this up against HIM, the miserable little golf obsessed cockroach that he is. Only his poor little feelings count in the universe.
He is coming apart.
It’s almost like saying the Dems manufactured a Cat 5 hurricane to destroy Puerto Rico in order to make him look bad.
Isalund, drump IS saying exactly that. Everything and everyone is conspiring against him to interfere with his constant con and grifting of tax payer funds to play his golf outings.
I own a small company (20 employees). I offered to match donations for Harvey for Houston, Irma for the USVI, and Maria for Puerto Rico. Over $5,000 was donated by staff. These are single moms, parents with two kids in college, parents with brand new babies, young people struggling to keep up with student loan payments. Trump could learn a thing or two from ordinary Americans who are willing to sacrifice for their fellow citizens. It’s called being part of a society and community.
I am used to Dump being a racist ass, but it may be more upsetting that he got to LMM’s eternal optimism. That’s how bad Dump is at this point. He is a sick man and this psychotic need for praise for doing nothing is NOT NORMAL. Someone needs to invoke the 25th amendment now. Pence may be a jerk as well, but he is not mentally unstable. This is so obvious to the rest of the world.
I so agree. Lin-Manuel’s comment was profoundly powerful just because he is so creative and brilliant–the exact opposite of conman, evil monster, tear- people-to-pieces drump.
I feel so bad for LMM. As much as his emotional instinct was right (because yes, the POTUS is THE WORST) I’m thinking LMM must be feeling a little disappointed in himself that he had that moment of desperate negativity. He tries so hard to be a ray of light for people. It’s his mantra.
They tried with Hamilton but you know the deplorables will now try to boycott Mary Poppins too.
PS. EFF YOU TRUMP
Me too. I thought ‘THAT Lin-Manuel Miranda?’ But he is ‘Love is love is love is love is love’! I adore Lin-Manuel, I love him for his amazing talent and his positivity. I almost hate Trump more for making Lin-Manuel say something negative, but he deserves it. Trump deserves everything bad this planet has to offer. And I adore Lin-Manuel even more for tweeting this. This is short and clear and on point.
Thats what got me the most! Lin is ALWAYS positive, even the day after the election he tweeted a measured, calming response. For him to say this and on such a public forum? It just shows how desperate the situation has gotten and how terrified the people close to it are by the reality. But I doubt you can get all that from a golf course in New Jersey
When you elicit that reaction from Lin-Manuel you know you are the biggest shit in the entire universe.
Bravo, Lin-Manuel for putting it out there!!
Exactly Jerusha! I have followed Lin-Manuel for some time now and he is always positive and never posts anything like he did yesterday. He spoke up when he needed to and it was effective.
Forgot to add-that is a beautiful first paragraph, Kaiser. Wish I had written it.
I am also delighted with LMM’s tweet. I have often said the same about Trump’s followers who happen to believe in hell. Why don’t they think they will go there?
I agree. That ungrateful b*tch doesn’t know her place. How dare she criticize the dear leader! She should be grateful to be acknowledged by the Emperor. So lazy, getting out there in waist deep sewage water searching for survivors. Ungrateful brown people, thinking electricity and food is free.
Meanwhile, only hardworking people go golfing….
So, yeah, nothing wrong with this picture,
I didn’t think this piece of evil garbage could hurt me anymore. But what he said devestated me. My husband is Puerto Rican and he could barely speak all day. So deep was his hurt and heartache. I’ve never even seen him like this before.
please hug your husband and tell him all normal people are trying to help Puerto Rico. it’s painful to watch and read about the horrible conditions there, but we must. the people in Puerto Rico are so brave and strong.
I am so sorry for you and your husband. It is sickening and I can’t imagine his pain. Hugs to you both.
@Patricia, exactly what Joanne and MagnoliaRose said.
I’m so sorry for your husband, but please make sure he knows that most Americans do NOT think like this about PR. Not at all. Racist Trumpettes just happen to be the loudest at the moment because they’ve been emboldened by him. Sane people are appalled at the treatment PR is receiving. My husband and I have already donated twice.
I am so very sorry for what you’re going through. This nightmare for our country can’t be over quickly enough.
My apologies to your husband and I fervently hope that his family is OK. A disaster in one’s life should not be compounded by another disaster masquerading as president.
What everyone said. Please let your husband know that we see and hear the people of Puerto Rico. We know they are Americans who need our love and our help, despite this man and his rotting carcass of a soul
He’s so disgusting. She’s actually out there, physically helping, and after Harvey, he stands on a truck while gloating about the crowd size that came to see him.
Trump speaks like a 1st grader. Did he even know whereor what Puerto Rico was before this, or even know what an island is? Big water. I thought he’d say “tremendous ” water, because that’s one of his tremendously favorite words.
Who knew going to an island surrounded by big ocean water to save fellow Americans would be so complicated? It’s wet too! Who knew?
Good luck to everyone in Puerto Rico. So sorry the president didn’t think of getting anything to you earlier, even though we already knew the deadly storm was heading straight to you
If Trump can’t deal with Puerto Rico because it’s surrounded by all that water (as islands amazingly tend to be), Hawaii should be really worried.
To paraphrase Kanye West, “Donald Trump doesn’t care about brown people”.
Or black people.
Or Jewish people.
Or muslims.
Or women.
Or the poor.
Or the sick.
Or the elderly.
Or the pre-born.
Or the hungry.
Or public school-educated children.
Or sexual assault victims.
But he does think Nazis are very fine people. And once he survived Charlottesville he knew he could openly discriminate and nothing would happen to him because of his bigotry. Nothing.
Hopefully the tax “reform” (AKA. the more money for billionaires plan) will fail and then the GOP big money donors will finally order his ousting. Because the only thing that can convince them to care is the potential loss of cold, hard cash.
I hope you know Emperor Zero, named after Nero but with less class, that I hate you straight to hell with all my power and conviction.
You make Marie Antionette look good.
ASSHOLE
I agree with Lin Manuel Miranda….That worthless orange POS is going straight to hell.
Remember, retired Lt. General Russel L. Honoré? He was the military guy who took control of and managed New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. His response to Trump’s remarks:
“The mayor’s living on a cot, and I hope the president has a good day at golf,” he told CNN.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ret-lt-gen-honor%C3%A9-while-the-president-golfs-san-juans-mayor-is-living-on-a-cot_us_59cfd879e4b05f005d348cd2
The thing is, with destruction of this magnitude, the military should have been on standby to immediately go in and manage the situation. The military has the manpower and resources to rebuild and get things back up and operational quickly. Those billion of our taxpayers given to the Defense Dept need to be used help our own American citizens rather than used to destroy other countries.
I’m baffled by how the company I work for has a disaster response plan that gets updated yearly but the government seemed to have no in case of island emergency disaster plan. Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam and even Hawaii are sitting vulnerable because apparently nobody sat their a$$es down and came up with a plan to respond to a catastrophic island based event even though there’s an entire godd@mned agency devoted to just that. Infuriating.
I’ve lived through Katrina, Gustav and the 2016 floods. What have I learned? You’re on your own. And the best advice and assistance you’ll get will come from neighbors, concerned citizens and other disaster survivors. That’s real. I wish CNN would have a town hall full of disaster survivors so we could expose FEMA and the Red Cross. I’m so f*cking angry…
I strongly suspect there is a plan. A plan that is reviewed, updated, and approved annually by both FEMA and Homeland Security. The issue here is whether the plan was followed and it very much smells like it was ignored.
Well lightpurple, like I said, I’ve lived it. And I doubt there’s a comprehensive plan for a major catastrophe anywhere. More like try to figure out what you can do once something happens. I’ve been in the room with disorganized, confused FEMA workers actually giving out wrong information. Not to mention, the situation goes from 0 to police state real quick. The National Guard standing around (yep just standing) with machine guns. Police at the grocery stores. Police at gas stations. And tension not because you fear looters or a frustrated citizen having a meltdown, but because of the hair trigger militaristic types holding the guns aimed at citizens who have already suffered through a life threatening event.
It gets so bad lightpurple. Every d@mn time, there’s the same disorganization and confusion.
Shout-out to FEMA who came out to inspect my home twice (they lost all the pictures they took the first time) only to deny me assistance because “I have resources”. My opinion is that every qualifying citizen should get a stipend because in the immediate aftermath you spend massive amounts of money (if you have money) just trying to survive–getting food, shelter, clean clothes and shoes, gas, etc to set up some kind of base of operations for yourself. That’s way before any insurance kicks in my friends, because insurance assessors can’t even get to you until a couple of weeks later, if you’re lucky. This is what we pay taxes for. F*ck the bureaucracy in times of emergency.
My God, I could write a book. Having flashbacks…
@Radley, I’m losing hope with FEMA. Of course they’re busy, but they’re doing nothing for us here in central Florida. It took them over a week to come look at our house with the red “enter at your own risk ” paper that HOA inspectors put on the window. FEMA was supposed to be here again on Wednesday, but never showed up. If you call them, you’re put on hold for 2 hours before anyone speaks to you, and then they just put your name on a long list of people who need help. Total confusion. Because of my family’s medical bills, we couldn’t afford house insurance, and if FEMA doesn’t help us, I don’t know what we’re going to do. Thankfully, we were able to get some of our clothes, some of our belongings, and friends have given us a place to stay, but this is so bad. Even after seeing the damage Harvey, Katrina and Sandy had done, I never thought for a second that it would happen to me.
I can’t imagine how much worse this would be for all of us if Trump had gotten a chance to cut the FEMA budget like he planned. He is really brain dead if he doesn’t think all of these disastrous storms happening in one month has nothing to do with climate change
The best plans are useless if the guy at the top doesn’t set them in motion. That’s what happened here. Trump was too busy fulminating over trivialities and puffing himself up to just give the command to go for it. That’s what happens when an incompetent ignoramus is in charge.
The military had the resources to help right away and was just waiting for the word from the Tweeter-in-Chief. And waiting. And waiting. And waiting….
This is all on Trump. He had to just give the orders and he ignored the situation instead for at least six days. The first 2-3 days are crucial in such a crisis according to people with real experience in such situations.
The things he has been saying about Puerto Rico are just totally unforgivable. As though debt and infrastructure problems had anything to do with the effect of such a storm. New infrastructure would have been destroyed also. They had been able to withstand other hurricanes, so they weren’t stupid about preparation for such weather, but this one was different. And his attacks on the mayor of San Juan are just atrocious. He’s even claiming the Democrats told her to “be nasty to Trump” even though she wasn’t and the Democrats have nothing to do with her. The Orange Maroon doesn’t realize that Puerto Rican political parties are different. The word “Democratic” as part of the name of her Party doesn’t mean she’s a Democrat like Pelosi or Schumer. Lots of political parties around the world have that word as part of their party name. But oh, no, it’s too much trouble to read up on the place or just ask about it.
I’ve been saying for a long time that I will be satisfied if he just resigns and goes to play golf in Dubai to avoid extradition. But after the way he has treated Puerto Rico – I’m heading toward the “hope he dies in prison” side.
If he does go to Puerto Rico in his stupid hat, I hope he is booed off the island. If they are too hospitable to do that, I hope they insist he actually go to places where he can see the extent of the devastation. If he refuses, then boo him off the island….
He wouldn’t even have to ask, I guarantee he’s being told this stuff by numerous staff, he’s just too arrogant to listen and too stupid to understand.
I can name a few ex-Pesidents that would be a thousand times better than you and most are dead ex-Presidents!
ASSHOLE!
Any of the living ex-presidents who would be willing to work only 15 minutes a day could do a better job.
The five current ex-presidents are doing more to bring attention to the plight of Puerto Rico right now than that poisonous, bloated toad. I hope he chokes on it.
Trump was taking a victory lap before the race had even started. Self congratulations on how HIS federal employees were doing such a great job when in reality people are dying and everything is a fucking mess. “Praise me on how great a job I’m doing as a leader on the recovery efforts.” That racist ahole is golfing while people are suffering and dying.
Trump is a malignant narcissist, the worst possible personality to be in the White House.
The federal government does NOT work for him. They work for us. We the people are asking them to do a better job in servicing our fellow American citizens who are in desperate straits.
They only work for him in the sense that he is a citizen, like we are. So taking (in this case, unjustified) pride in them over the needs of other citizens of the country is a ridiculous.
He claims attacks on him are attacks on the First Responders and the military. I just can’t.
Ugh! Him tying himself to first responders and the military made me feel stabby.
He must really have Bedminster on lock down as there have been no pictures of him golfing so far. I read, either on FB or a comment section, that this person did not understand why they are not using the military bulldozers and bridge making ability to get things going. Apparently (and it’s just from what I read) the bulldozers can plow through just about anything to at least get some roads/pathways open to parts of PR that are isolated. Also, can’t they drop supplies into those areas that are isolated and need them? They constantly talk about the containers full of supplies that aren’t being moved.
I talked to a retired FEMA employee the other day. He was beside himself. He kept saying they need to bring in Army Engineers with bulldozers to clear the roads and build bridges where needed and they need to air drop supplies over the remote areas but Trump hasn’t sent enough helicopters.
@Lightpurple. People don’t realize the tremendous human capital drain the federal government has taken over the years. Dedicated, hard working knowledgeable people have been retiring taking all their institutional knowledge with them. People get tired of being bullied and dumped on and accused of being overpaid do nothings and used as political footballs by Congress.
@Lightpurple: I am not as knowledgeable as you here, but isn’t this one of the areas where other, more qualified people step in and do what needs to be done regardless of the Dotard? The Defense Dept? Veteran FEMA employees and military who have been through this before and know exactly what needs to be done?
Everyone always talks about how there are still a handful of “adults” in the administration, so I would have thought someone else could have done more by now.
@Lorelai. Well in theory you would hope so, but FEMA is a highly politicized agency especially for a Republican white house. Republicans biggest political mantra is that federal government should be small. So theoretically they don’t believe in FEMA except in the most bare essential way. States are supposed to incur most the cost. The rest should come from religious and humanitarian organizations, donations and only a fixed portion from federal government.
This is one of the main reasons W. Bush delayed so long before responding to Katrina as fully as he should have. Republicans don’t want to be accused of keeping big government in place (unless they’re ripping it off for profit). So they tend to be slow with the purse strings to not overshoot the situation and payout more than is necessary. If people get hurt in meantime, that’s just tough. The federal gov. is not responsible to pay for every bad thing that happens, natural disaster or other. People should have been better prepared and are supposed to be responsible for their own well being, even in a disaster. That’s the small-government world view.
This admin. was better at responding to Houston and Florida because: a) this admin desperately needs positive approval ratings. This kind of thing gone wrong is a major political disaster for any admin. and this pres can’t afford to lose any more ground b) Both Texas and Florida are republican states and every Republican congressional vote is valuable right now. c) Both states/city bring lots of $ to US. There is a self preserving motivation to help get things back to Business in T & F.
Puerto Rico on the other hand is seen as an enormous money pit with no payoff and therefore can be sacrificed. The only help the government wanted to give PR was in the form of private investors piecing up all the resources and getting a huge payout first. Now Maria has made that impossible and the poor people be damned if there’s no $ to get out of PR first.
So to answer your question, although there are in deed capable agencies that know how to deal with a disaster, it is up to the administration to approve and allot how much will be deployed – how much $ they are willing to spend.
Trump’s tweets and statements are outrageous, how can the Republician party continue to support this man? and don’t they know they have backed themselves into a corner?
Even if 45 is impeached and removed from office, his supporters are very loyal and would not automatically accept Pence as president. So the outcome would be in one corner 45 and his supporters, Pence and the Republicians in another and the rest of the country who are disgusted with the Republicians. With all the divisions in the United States lately that 45 seems to be encouraging, it is has the makings of a civil war. I try not to be a conspiracy believer, but it does look like some unseen forces are working to destabilize the country. This is terrifying
I agree that he wants his supporters to get violent in his defense. He’s crazy and his ego is enormous yet fragile.
Honestly, I think he’d keep beefing with N. Korea until they nuked the west coast because that’ll show all those liberals who rejected him. He’s very sick. He can’t be reasoned with. We’re all in danger. It’s as bad as we all predicted it would be.
Aaaand…..here are some of his violent supporters.
http://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/914136210955743232
@Jerusha. That is some scary stuff. And these people call themselves patriots? And can someone please explain to me what the fixation is with George Soros? What has the man done to get those fanatics so crazy?
He just tweeted again this morning about “Little Rocket Man”. He is honestly egging us into a Nuclear war!
I have never honestly hated someone as much as I do this grifter and his family of thugs and crooks. And it is not healthy to feel this way!
@I’mscaredashell, the Soros hatred is from a breed of alt-right that has pretty much been spoon-fed a script line by line. According to them, Soros is a globalist who pays us all to overturn the US, using the Saul Alinsky playbook, so that he can rule over One World Order. And Rosie O’Donnell and Michael Moore are supposedly are lead spokespeople. Meanwhile, none of us work while we simultaneously abort all our babies yet somehow keep spawning more so we can stay on welfare. There is no logic or reality behind any of this.
Wow. I posted this before his latest N. Korea baiting tweet. It’s sad how predictably crazy he is.
And yep, I still think he cares not a bit if blue states get nuked.
He’s so crooked and heartless, he probably thinks getting us to worry and talk about nuclear war for a few days will make us forget about the bad job he’s doing with Puerto Rico. If he starts a nuclear war, he won’t have to have FEMA take care of the damage the hurricanes have done. Someone needs to take this childish, careless, dangerous nut job away from Twitter and out of the WH
@lightpurple, just to clarify: people have been warning about George Soros even before the term “alt-right” was coined. in fact, I first heard of him around 2004-5. This guy was a REAL nazi collaborator (and still is) – you can find footage of him from a 60 Minutes interview where he smilingly talks about helping send Jews to their death as a teenager. Also, Saul Alinsky dedicated his “Rules for Radicals” to Lucifer, the first rebel – as seen in image searches. So, there is good reason for people to believe Soros is a global criminal.
Just reading this now:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/opinion/george-soros-israel-hungary.html
^ETA: that article is not quite what I thought it would be. I was trying to find one that better explained why certain countries were denouncing him because of his constant interference in their ability to govern themselves, regardless of whatever his stated “humanitarian” intentions are.
He is a vile, vile human being.
If you need a palate cleanser check out #puberme. Colbert and Nick Kroll started this, getting celebs to post awkward puberty pics, with a donation for each one going to PR relief efforts.
http://twitter.com/lin_manuel/status/913541506841153536
I really hope that when he finally visits PR, people are going to give him the cold shoulder. I do not want to see Puerto Ricans line up to take selfies like the people (among them Blacks and Latinos) did in the Houston shelters. There needs to be accountability and it cannot be forgotten just because he finally does what he should have done 10 days ago.
I hope he slips and falls face first into waste high sewage.
He’s not going – even before the tragedy that is Las Vegas cancelled his trip to PR, he would have had another excuse why he would have to cancel his trip to PR
Oh my gosh, have you seen the tweet from Jon Favreau? It’s the best. https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/914218021836558337
@GutterFlower, I loved Favreau’s tweet! Kim K. wrote something similar and I actually found myself cheering for her:
https://mobile.twitter.com/KimKardashian/status/914235259620749312
Love Jon Favreau. I can’t wait to hear the Crooked Media guys go IN on this piece of actual sh!t on their shows this week.
@Shambles I will start madly refreshing my podcast app at about 4pm tomorrow! 🙂
sorry for double post – not sure how I did that
He’s not going – even before the tragedy that is Las Vegas cancelled his trip to PR, he would have had another excuse why he would have to cancel his trip to PR
Wow – some of those pro 45 commentators – I can’t tell if they are really that dumb or if they are not pro 45 and are being satirical :'(
There are no words to express how outrage and livid I am about Trump’s overall response to this crisis and his behavior yesterday. Suffice it to say that I have filled everyone of Paul Ryan’s voicemail accounts with obscenities.
To keep my blood pressure a bit lower while still resisting. As we enter another day of Trump v the NFL, I am pointing out to any Trumpet claiming that the NFL players are being disrespectful to veterans that their beloved Leader’s VA chief is billing his vacations to the VA, stealing money that was supposed to go to veterans and that Trump knows this and the thief still has a job. I believe that is far more disrespectful to those who gave all to protect our way of life than someone kneeling in protest during a slavery anthem.
SPEAK IT!!!!
There is a devious way Trump has about twisting truths around. That is his talent, if one must call it that. That is the frightening/exhaustive aspect of most dictators … putting what’s right on the defensive, as if right were wrong. Takes a lot of stamina to keep fighting for truth. Trump sucks the energy out of life … I can see why his parents sent him away to a school.
All I’m going to say is that if you can’t see the common denominator in the poor response to Katrina and Maria, you’re in the denial about the reality of what America is.
@Veronica, I think we all do see it — most of us, at least. It is so blatant, which makes this even more upsetting.
Can someone please, please explain to me how their are still average citizens out there that support him? Every time 44.5 does something horrible, I check out my Facebook feed to see if any of the people I follow that support him (I don’t know if I can call them friends anymore) have finally taken a step back and really taken in how horrible he is for all of us. And instead they either ignore or deflect. I cannot come to terms with this. It is so distressing to see people I thought I knew become one of them. It’s hard to reconcile.
It is weird how Trump exposed the fact that “very nice” friends and neighbors have a lot of deep-seated grievances and quietly blame “others” for those feelings. They would most certainly deny with sincerity that they are racists … they absolutely don’t see how their approval/reaction to Trumps constantly dividing people is a picture of racism. They don’t understand the sheer hurt and rejection some people feel in Trump’s America. Trump would be nothing without his supporters and he knows it. They made Trump, and they are not only in America, they are everywhere … and Russia above all knows it and uses fear and racism to full advantage. Resist!!!!
I think white America is struggling through an “I’ve seen the enemy and it is us” moment. I keep hearing the same from white people who are shocked that people they actually know and possibly love are selfish, hate-mongering, bigots. It’s quite a wake up call.
I’ve always said, racism is a crisis in the white community. It isn’t a problem the oppressed need to solve. It’s a problem those who benefit from institutionalized racism need to tackle. White people get extremely defensive when I say that. Because it exposes not only the evildoers, but also the good people who do nothing.
@Radley: I am white, and agree with you. But I’m living in a very red pocket of a very blue state, and wouldn’t even know where to begin.
That’s some truth there Radley!
Just when you think he’s reached the epitome of absolute awfulness, he does something new.
I hate this man but I have to wonder what is going on with the Mueller investigation because Mueller started interviewing White House staff on Friday. These tweets are extreme even for Trump. Has he finally be cornered??!!
I try not to get to the point where you wish things on someone that you can’t take back. Like, putting it out into the universe makes it happens and makes you worse – or possibly I’ve watched Star Wars too many times. But I hate him like I’ve hated few things or people in my life and I hope he dies. I hope he dies a slow, lonely death. And Lin is right, he will be going straight to some kind of hell when he does.
It takes a special kind of asshole to use social media to insult and criticize the mayor of a hurricane devastated region while you you’re sitting on your bloated, diseased ass on your own golf course. And then you make it worse by doubling down on it by basically saying what you just said, for which there is actual proof, is being twisted and that it is fake news.
The president has more or less turned his back on Puerto Rico and is deliberately delaying crucial aid the EVEN A SCORE. As far as he is concerned, her crime isn’t that she was unprepared or that “they want everything done for them” (WTF does that even mean) it is that she wasn’t properly thankful and complimentary to HIM.
I have never been so ashamed to be an American.
I don’t know about anybody else here, but I second your first paragraph and I won’t feel one bit the worse for it. I’ll dance around my living room singing Happy Days Are Here Again at the top of my lungs.
And he just threatened North Korea.
And threw his Secretary of State under the bus at the same time. Speechless.
I watched the mayor on TV from the first day or two of the disaster, and she has to be mentally and physically exhausted. She is living in the convention center, with others who have lost homes and possessions. From the interviews I saw Friday, she was frustrated with the “good news story” that the backup secretary had made the day before.
Now, what were Friday’s other headlines that needed to be bumped? Milking taxpayers. The evening cable shows were filled with more examples of waste (including that of the leader billing costs to his properties).
I had feelings too. Disgust, anger and a bit of nausea that this POS is letting people rot for 5 days before he even thought they were worthy to tweet about. And then it was only because he got his delicate feathers ruffled by a woman. PR wasn’t even impt enough to register on his tiny radar. He is not worthy to be the mayor of Idiotville much less POTUS
He is such a waste of oxygen. Has no compassion, no kindness, no decency or innate goodness. Why people like him live to grand old age, while so many good people die unexpectedly and at a younger age than this oxygen thief?
The grandstanding asshole is supposedly flying to Puerto Rico and if he has time, the U.S. Virgin Islands. Another photo opportunity for him to showboat and talk about what a great response his team has done. Not holding out any hope that the elected official s there will hold him accountable….they’re between a rock and a hard place……they need all the resources they can get and no doubt that orange POS would cut off aid if he felt insulted.
I have never felt such dismay at the state of this country. Bannon & company have declared war on all Republicans not aligned with them. Imagine a Congress full of Roy Moore’s and Ted Cruz’. Russian interference is everywhere. The white supremists are pushing for all out civil war. And there’s a brainless, narcissistic, orange megalomaniac in the White House.
I’m ready for the mothership to return cause I’m the first one on it.
Nobody on earth is as widely loathed and despised as Trump. So I guess he does excel at something.
Did anyone else see this article *before* it was updated? Apparently the administration wanted Puerto Ricans to – wait for it – sign promissory notes that they would repay their evacuation expenses. Let that sink in.
Luckily it turned out that while technically there is a law about this on the books, it is generally used (IIRC) to evacuate Americans from foreign countries, not from a natural disaster in their own – and is unenforceable in this situation.
But that fact that the administration wanted to invoke this is worth remembering, and shows that they 100% do not consider PRs to be real “Americans.” It is all too disgusting.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352824-trump-administration-forcing-puerto-rico-evacuees-to-pay-for?amp
What did we(America) expect?!?! We elected a effing reality tv star as our POTUS?!?! This makes never ill. I honestly feel sick to my stomach. THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU TRUMP!!!! This is about American Citizens dying and stuck on an island(big water, ocean water-are you kidding me?!)in desperate need of medical attention, food and water. SEND EVERYONE!!! PitBull the singer/rapper, is using his private jet to evacuate people for Heavens sake!!!!! That is what we need. More of that. They won’t have power for months. Get the American Citizens out of there. Hell, even if they weren’t American Citizens I would feel the same! They are people and these people need help BIG TIME. LOADS OF HELP.
What makes it worse is how complicit the governor of PR(Rossello) has been and how he stood by and did nothing as The Dotard and his people bullied the mayor of SJ. A reporter said that when the cameras are off the governor of PR tells them that the response from The Dotard and his administration has been inadequate and in the beginning the Dotard and his administration were doing well(which again is a lie because it took them 9 days to respond), but now the relief has slowed. But when the governor of PR gets in front of cameras and talks to the Dotard, his administration, and FEMA, his tune completely changes and he praises the Dotard and tells them that they are doing a good job. The governor’s complicity isn’t helping Puerto, the help would have been quicker and more adequate had the governor not spent so much time praising The Dotard. The people defending the governor can’t keep arguing that he is playing nice because he wants help because he has been playing nice the entire time and it resulted in little or no supplies and help for Puerto Rico. It was only after the mayor of SJ woke up and realized that the Dotard was just using them, that she finally spoke up and received some of the things she demanded. This notion of being nice to The Dotard so that he won’t withhold help or “tweet on” people has got to stop. Now he is doing a divide and conquer, pitting those officials who stroke his ego(Rosello and a former mayor of SJ) against the mayor of SJ. The Dotard is so upset about not being praised that he had Mnchuin, Mulvaney, and Cohen giving interviews attacking the mayor of SJ. It also looks like they are having her tone it down. This is wrong. If the governor of PR was a leader, he would stand united with the mayor of SJ instead of just standing there watching as The Dotard, his bots, and the GOP attacks her over and over again. I also noticed that the first hand accounts from reporters in Puerto Rico have stopped. Complicity is going to running this country. Now is not the time to be complicit.
The Dotard is still attacking the mayor. This is what he had to say about her this morning.
“We have done a great job with the almost impossible situation in Puerto Rico. Outside of the Fake News or politically motivated ingrates,…”-The Dotard
If he were doing a great job, there wouldn’t have been a need to attack the mayor of SJ. He was tweeting about her since 4 am. The attacks didn’t stop there because then the bots and the governor of PR joined in.
“…people are now starting to recognize the amazing work that has been done by FEMA and our great Military. All buildings now inspected…..”-The Dotard
That’s not what the governor of PR is telling the reporters behind the scenes. If they were doing amazing work, then there would have not been a need to attack the major of SJ using twitter, bots, the governor of PR, and GOP senators.
“…for safety. Thank you to the Governor of P.R. and to all of those who are working so closely with our First Responders. Fantastic job!”-The Dotard
The governor of PR is being complicit and it’s doing nothing but causing harm to Puerto Rico. A reporter said that behind the scenes, the governor of PR is telling them that the relief from the WH has been inadequate and that it has gotten slower. The governor needs to evaluate. What’s more important? Covering for the Dotard or making sure that Puerto Rico has the help they need.
Can someone in his circle please disconnect this WiFi?!?!?! You know he wouldn’t know how to put it back up. Seriously, this twitter fingers need to stop!!! Why do they let him do this??? Oh yeah, because everyone tip toes around him or they will ‘quit’ be fired the next day. Insane. Less holding, less Twitter, more governing.
You know you are a terrible person when you got people siding with Kim Jong Un. I have relatives who voted for this man and are hoping/ thinking they made the right choice, defending his actions debacle after debacle. If after this PR mess they will still defend this man then I will have to disown them. This is already beyond political beliefs. This is a humanitarian disaster.
I thought Hopeless Hicks was auditing all his tweets – she’s being paid $200K a year as his Communications Director to let him do this??? Or is she too busy kissing his ass to care? I say let him keep tweeting this vituperative nonsense and sink himself even deeper into the dark, dark hole of his own making.
I have to say, I’m a Maria survivor from Puerto Rico, and these comments just make my stomach turn. Help is not arriving to the hands of the people. There are a lot of charity drives, yet things are not arriving to people’s hands. The situation is dire.
Since the hurricane, I lost my job & business. I have no food, no water for myself and my 3 pets. The apartment I live in sustained little damage, but I have no water or power service, until further notice. The area I live in is completely devastated. Thieves have sacked a lot of businesses, and empty houses from people who ran to shelters. My family and I are fine physically. The emotional toll this has taken on all of us has changed our lives.
I’m still trying to process all the horror I’ve lived this past week and a half.
5-10 hr lines to get 20$ of gasoline, maybe. They cant guarantee you’ll get gas by the time you get to the front. 3hr+ lines to enter a supermarket to get basic necessities. Most markets are closed becauze they’re out of everything. Having to go from friend to friends’ houses to shower, charge my cell phone and laptop. 2 hours+ to wait for WiFi service. 2 hours at a food bank to get a free meal, daily.
Communication is out everywhere, cell phones have intermittent service, no internet anywhere except for WiFi spots, no cable or radio, only AM stations where all they do is complain and spout devastation porn. It’s tough to hear horror stories from everyone you know, everyday.
A man who was bludgeoned over a tank of gas. People fighting in line at an ATM over the last 20$. Areas completely flattened where people had built their own houses with wood and zinc.
The problems are very real, and as I keep reading news stories of bureaucratic fighting, we keep waiting.
The Jones Act being lifted for 10 days means little to us. We need assistance, and we keep waiting for it.
Omg. I am so sorry. Hope it gets better soon
Angela,
I am so very very sorry. Please hold on. I am so ashamed that our country is failing you. I don’t usually pray, but I’m praying for the people of PR — and calling my representatives and donating money.
I admire Mayor Carmen so much. The strength of the people of Puerto Rico and also the Virgin Islands and other islands hit by these hurricanes is breathtaking. So many tears being shed as this situation unfolds. Those contributing to their suffering will pay. Evil people cannot divide us.
Complicity is ruining this country. The people who have the power to stop the Dotard aren’t doing a thing and it’s causing more problems.
The Dotard had the governor of PR(Rossello) make a list of all of his “accomplishments” in PR and then send it to the press. The governor of PR is causing more problems for PR because he doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to The Dotard. The Dotard even tweeted a false statement about inspections in Puerto Rico and then Rossello had to admit that he had no idea what The Dotard was talking about. When Puerto Rico needs a leader, they have a coward. How much of the problem is due to Rossello’s misinformation? He is telling the reporters one thing behind scenes and then the Dotard something different.
In an attempt to appease The Dotard, the NFL owners are having the players kneel before the anthem and then link arms and stand during the anthem. The focus of the protests have completely changed. Why? To appease The Dotard. The Dotard has posted 2 tweets with the Standforouranthem hashtag, the hashtag that was identified to be used by Russian bots to cause division.
Tillerson says one thing about NK and then the Dotard gets on twitter and makes 3 aggressive posts about NK with Nikki Haley backing him up. The Dotard is on twitter trying to start a war with NK.
All of this would stop if someone would just grow a backbone and tell the Dotard to shut up. Complicity isn’t what we need right now.
I also forgot to include this:
A commentator was talking about how the Dotard has no empathy. Alex Whitt responded that she knows that The Dotard has empathy because she saw it in the videos from when he visited Texas. This is another moment when you just want to hit your head on the desk. The press seems to be complicit and willing to do anything to normalize the Dotard. That wasn’t empathy that Alex Whitt saw in those videos, especially when the reporters who were present stated that The Dotard was saying very insensitive things to the people while he was posing with them. A staged photo-op with the victims of hurricanes doesn’t translate into empathy. If The Dotard had empathy, he wouldn’t have written all those horrible tweets about the mayor of SJ, tried to turn take a knee into a battle over the flag or NA, and trying to start a war with NK.
SNL aired their primere of the season. The cold open was the Dotard in the Oval Office with Sarah, Sessions, and Schumer.
The funniest part of the skit:
Sarah: “Everyone knows that I am no nonsense and all nonsense.”
Sessions: “Please Mr president don’t tweet on me.”
The Dotard: said that PR was an island in an big ocean with “fishys” and turtles that snap, didn’t know that Puerto Rico was apart of the US, hung up on the major and called her nasty after she said that she needed help, patting himself on the back for his response to PR
Thank you Kaiser for bringing us this information.
The one thing I don’t understand is why the media has not brought up the fact that #notmypresident doesn’t give a shit about Puerto Rico because THEY CAN’T VOTE FOR HIM!!!!!!!
“Being nice to Rocket Man hasn’t worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won’t fail.”-The Dotard
We have the dumbest president in history. When he says “RM” he is referring to KJU. KJU is 33 years old, so 25 years ago, wouldn’t he have been 8 years old? Which means that Clinton and Bush would have never had any contact with him. Wasn’t Obama dealing with KJI until his death in 2011? The Dotard failed to even understand that KJU and KLI are two different people again. This is the 2nd time he has made a statement confusing him, his father, and grandfather.
25 years ago would be 1992 and in 1992, Bush Sr was president. KUI ruled from 1994 to 2011. KJS ruled before his son.
What is wrong with the press? Ana Cabrera is vilifying the mayor of SJ. She tried to justify the comments that Mulvany said about her by claiming that the mayor’s accounts can’t be valid because Jennifer and Rossello are reporting positive things and speaking nicely about the Dotard and FEMA. The major asked for help and now the Dotard is bullying her into submission like he did with the NFL players, by having the press, bots, his and GOP senators(Mnchun, Mulvany, and Cohen) attack her. Thomas Roberts even tried to make it look like The mayor of SJ was engaging back and forth in a battle with The Dotard, when it was just the Dotard tweeting horrible things about her while she was out helping people and raising awareness. We don’t need complicity right now and it’s sad to see that the press are falling right in line with the Dotard’s attempt to bully the mayor.
The WH is even waging a campaign to make it look like the mayor is lying by having Jennifer and Rossello present a different narrative. The Dotard succeeded in dividing the Puerto Rican officials, he is pitting those who stroke his ego(Rossello and Jennifer) against the mayor of SJ. Do Rossello and Jennifer realize the harm they are doing to Puerto Rico by taking the side of The Dotard and going on these praisefest rounds? This is about Puerto Rico, not The Dotard’s ego.
Rossello put together a list of all the “accomplishments” the Dotard and FEMA made in Puerto Rico and circulated it to the press. The press happily reported his list as fact. Why is Rossello more interested in making The Dotard look good, than in helping Puerto Rico?
A reporter said that governor of PR is trying to manipulate the death toll numbers, this must be another attempt to help The Dotard. He is trying to claim that some of the deaths weren’t due to the hurricane.
The major problem in the relief to Puerto Rico is the governor. He is more concerned about making The Dotard look good, than in helping Puerto Rico.
He needs to be imprisoned and to die in jail. Now. It is absolutely beyond comprehension that this has been allowed to continue for this long. People are DYING.
I cannot believe this man is the president of our country. Of any country.
FEMA generally has “real world” issues. They came to give a presentation at my agency to advise us on shelter in place procedures. Their plan for our floor was to put 35 attorneys and support staff in the conference room and seal the doors with duct tape (this plan was for a chemical or weapons attack as well as physical disaster). There is a closet in the room for jugs of water but no sanitary facilities. FEMA felt this was adequate housing for up to a week of crisis mode. Shortly thereafter an email was circulated to the entire building stating that the Federal Police had the right to shoot anyone on sight, with no repercussions if the individual was in a public space during a lockdown. I left soon after.
Y’all, I was so legit triggered yesterday. I read the NYT story to my little boy (whom I homeschool, not for religious reasons, he’s got Asperger’s and doesn’t like big crowds. Also, I live in rural Kentucky and I can’t with these hillbilly kids, sorry not sorry) and we were both in tears. I’m not Latina (that I know of anyway lol), but I studied Spanish, spent three weeks in Mexico and one in Peru and I just feel such a connection to that community. Past life, maybe? LOL Anyway, my heart was just broken after reading those tweets, like, every time I think he can’t piss me off more it happens. Between going after a woman begging for help for her people, to letting these people die while he f***ing plays golf to trying to distract us by what football players do during the anthem to explaining to us what an island is (it kinda felt like HE just learned) and living surrounded by Trump supporters, I just couldn’t. This man, quite literally, drives me to drink at times.
My chest is getting tight just reading these comments, and I’m CANADIAN!!! I just watched Oprah on 60 Minutes, her piece on the real people who voted for Trump and they STILL support him. So disturbing!
Remember when the Dotard tweeted that Jerry Jones called him? It’s being reported that he called Jerry Jones 4 times and begged him not to let the players kneel during the NA. Jerry Jones complied, making his players kneel before the anthem and then stand and link arms during the anthem. This is wrong. How many other NFL owners did The Dotard call? If he called the NFL owners, then did he also call NHL, soccer, Nascar, and NBA with the same request? Jerry Jones betrayed his players just to appease The Dotard. Can’t Jerry Jones and The Dotard get into trouble for this?
Then you have to wonder how many times the Dotard called the governor of PR about the mayor of SJ begging the governor to defend him?
As an American I am disgusted by his response, these are our people for god’s sake.
Can Puerto Ricans run for President? Would love to vote for Carmen Cruz!
Yes they can – there are American citizens – something the Dotard-in-Chief refuses to acknowledge. Oh, but wait a second – Puerto Rico has no electoral votes and therefore have no say in a presidential election. Does that help a little as to what is going on here?
I just feel like we’re all trapped in a nightmare partially of our own making. Even those of us who feared Trump and voted against him…. I find myself wondering what else I should’ve done, thinking about all the ways I’ve skated by with white privilege when I could have been a better ally, been braver in speaking out. The utter inhumanity and absolute cruelty of this person are breathtaking. I bounce back and forth between weary and exhausted disconnection from everything to despair.