In yet another blatant in-your-face attempt to show how gullible his supporters really are, Donald Trump went on the television box yesterday and lied.
What else is new? He lies all the time.
Yesterday, during an Oval Office briefing to discuss his administration’s preparedness for Hurricane Florence, Trump was asked if he learned anything from his administration’s disastrous response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. It is common knowledge that almost 3000 died in Puerto Rico as a result of Maria, but that memo has not reached the desk of the mighty leader!
Hurricane Maria was the “hardest one we had by far because of the island nature”, Trump said, adding: “I actually think it was one of the best jobs that’s ever been done with respect to what this is all about.”
He wasn’t done. He had more lies to tell.
“The job that FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in Puerto Rico, I think was tremendous. I think that Puerto Rico was an incredible, unsung success.”
And if any of his gullible followers missed his television box appearance, Trump went on the Twitter machine and lied some more.
“We got A Pluses for our recent hurricane work in Texas and Florida”, he tweeted, “(and did an unappreciated great job in Puerto Rico…”
Even the Republican Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, could not sit silent like a good Republican while the mighty leader lied. Rossello issued a statement saying,
“No relationship between a colony and the federal government can ever be called ‘successful’ because Puerto Ricans lack certain inalienable rights enjoyed by our fellow Americans in the states.”
Rossello called Hurricane Maria “the worst natural disaster in our modern history” and said work still remained before they could move on to other stages of recovery. He also said he was still waiting for Trump to respond to a petition to help Puerto Rico complete work on emergency housing restoration programs and debris removal.
The consensus is obvious. Losing almost 3000 people is a national disaster.
Seventeen years after September 11th where 2974 people died, we still honor the lives lost in that terrorist attack. If Trump was president then would he call that attack and any feeble response he musters, an “unsung success?”
Maybe he will… maybe he will…
