No - Trump hasn't done a good job on Puerto Rico

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Sorry - outstanding FEMA efforts aside, Trump has failed Puerto Rico, and this is now his Katrina.

Because he took a week when people were starving, stranded and suffering, and made it about football players not standing during a song before a ball game.

He could have used his tweets and national megaphone to help marshal volunteer efforts, fundraising, donations & awareness. I mean, imagine being homeless in PR right now, waiting 4-6 hours for a bottle of water or gallon of gas, hoping to find loved ones and to someday - probably years from now - try to get back to some semblance of reality...and hearing that Trump is bragging that his talk about a football league has really "caught on" and focusing most of his attention on a game.
 
He could have used his tweets and national megaphone to help marshal volunteer efforts, fundraising, donations & awareness.
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From what I can tell, our lazy, fat ass President mostly spent the first few days of this unfolding humanitarian disaster wailing about the constitutionally-protected political views of some pro football players.
 
Thing1 said:
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DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times".
 
Puerto Rico Is Already an Environmental Tragedy. Hurricane Maria Will Make It Even Worse. September 19, 2017
https://newrepublic.com/article/144...-tragedy-hurricane-maria-will-make-even-worse
“[Maria] will essentially devastate most of the island,” Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said in a Monday interview with USA Today. Most of the nation’s 3.4 million residents will lose power, structures will be destroyed, and neighborhoods will be flooded. There will be food and supply shortages. People will die.

In some ways, Puerto Rico will face familiar environmental threats caused by major hurricanes, but they’ll be compounded by the island’s financial and environmental woes. For instance, wastewater pumping systems failed in Texas and Florida after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, causing major sewage spills. The same will likely happen in Puerto Rico, where most pumping stations run on electric power, but may be much worse due to the island’s “degraded and unsafe” electricity system. The local energy authority has already said it could take up to four months to restore power, likely resulting in prolonged sewage releases.

Puerto Rico also has its own unique environmental concerns. Adriana Gonzales, a Sierra Club environmental justice organizer based in San Juan, is particularly worried about coal ash in southern Puerto Ric

he Guayama pile is not the only site where coal ash threatens human health. For years, AES also dumped thousands of tons of coal ash in southern Puerto Rico landfills. That’s generally accepted practice, but it’s different in Puerto Rico because almost all of its landfills are overflowing due to the financial crisis. That’s a recipe for disaster given the 25 inches of rain expected to fall from Maria; according to the EPA, coal ash most frequently poses human health risks when it gets wet, allowing toxins to leach from the ash and percolate into soil or drinking water.

Puerto Ricans also have to worry about landslides....
 
Thing1 said:
Sorry - outstanding FEMA efforts aside, Trump has failed Puerto Rico, and this is now his Katrina.

Because he took a week when people were starving, stranded and suffering, and made it about football players not standing during a song before a ball game.

He could have used his tweets and national megaphone to help marshal volunteer efforts, fundraising, donations & awareness. I mean, imagine being homeless in PR right now, waiting 4-6 hours for a bottle of water or gallon of gas, hoping to find loved ones and to someday - probably years from now - try to get back to some semblance of reality...and hearing that Trump is bragging that his talk about a football league has really "caught on" and focusing most of his attention on a game.
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Look turd, if we spend 100 billion dollars on Puerto Rico, the next hurricane will wash it all away AGAIN....................

Puerto Rico is a slum for a reason and it's not Trumps fault
 
Cartoons, repeated lies that the the Governor has directly contradicted, and incessant whining because they think a man can't tweet and direct disaster relief efforts at the same time, despite evidence to the contrary.

That's today's left.
 
Heck of a job, Brownie

Puerto Ricans say US relief efforts failing them

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Trump administration declared Thursday that its relief efforts in Puerto Rico are succeeding, but people on the island said help was scarce and disorganized while food supplies dwindled in some remote towns eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of 3.4 million people.

President Donald Trump cleared the way for more supplies to head to Puerto Rico by issuing a 10-day waiver of federal restrictions on foreign ships delivering cargo to the island. And House Speaker Paul Ryan said the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief account would get a $6.7 billion boost by the end of the week.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke declared that "the relief effort is under control."

"It is really a good news story, in terms of our ability to reach people," she told reporters in the White House driveway.

Outside the capital, San Juan, people said that was far from the truth.

"I have not received any help, and we ran out of food yesterday," said Mari Olivo, a 27-year-old homemaker whose husband was pushing a shopping cart with empty plastic gallon jugs while their two children, 9 and 7, each toted a large bucket. They stood in line in a parking lot in the town of Bayamon near the hard-hit northern coast, where local police used hoses to fill up containers from a city water truck.

"I have not seen any federal help around here," said Javier San Miguel, a 51-year-old accountant.

Trump tweeted later: "FEMA & First Responders are doing a GREAT job in Puerto Rico." He also took issue with media coverage of the administration's response, writing: "Wish press would treat fairly!"

Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, called for the U.S. military to immediately provide security and distribution of aid in remote areas. "As was said after Hurricane Andrew: 'Where the hell is the cavalry?'" he said in a statement.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pu...ng-them/ar-AAszrgO?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
 
President Trump, as the world knows, cares only for those who vote for him. A word to the wise: never be an exploited colony.
 
Thing1 said:
Sorry - outstanding FEMA efforts aside, Trump has failed Puerto Rico, and this is now his Katrina.

Because he took a week when people were starving, stranded and suffering, and made it about football players not standing during a song before a ball game.

He could have used his tweets and national megaphone to help marshal volunteer efforts, fundraising, donations & awareness. I mean, imagine being homeless in PR right now, waiting 4-6 hours for a bottle of water or gallon of gas, hoping to find loved ones and to someday - probably years from now - try to get back to some semblance of reality...and hearing that Trump is bragging that his talk about a football league has really "caught on" and focusing most of his attention on a game.
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You need to President to tell you to go volunteer? Is that what you are reduced to?

I understand your overwhelming need to criticize Trump for everything, but I should remind you that they live on a FUCKING ISLAND and it was devastated by a direct hit from a Cat 4 hurricane. All communications were wiped out. Shitbags like you are sitting back wondering why all of the lights aren't back on.

This is why you are never taken seriously. Come up with some serious criticism and I will listen.
 
God bless America said:
DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times". DEMOCRAT Governor of Puerto Rico: "we are very grateful for the administration. They have responded quickly. The president has been very attentive to the situation, personally calling me several times".
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So Thingy lied again, ho hum.
 
Cypress said:
Puerto Ricans say US relief efforts failing them

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Trump administration declared Thursday that its relief efforts in Puerto Rico are succeeding, but people on the island said help was scarce and disorganized while food supplies dwindled in some remote towns eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of 3.4 million people.

President Donald Trump cleared the way for more supplies to head to Puerto Rico by issuing a 10-day waiver of federal restrictions on foreign ships delivering cargo to the island. And House Speaker Paul Ryan said the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief account would get a $6.7 billion boost by the end of the week.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke declared that "the relief effort is under control."

"It is really a good news story, in terms of our ability to reach people," she told reporters in the White House driveway.

Outside the capital, San Juan, people said that was far from the truth.

"I have not received any help, and we ran out of food yesterday," said Mari Olivo, a 27-year-old homemaker whose husband was pushing a shopping cart with empty plastic gallon jugs while their two children, 9 and 7, each toted a large bucket. They stood in line in a parking lot in the town of Bayamon near the hard-hit northern coast, where local police used hoses to fill up containers from a city water truck.

"I have not seen any federal help around here," said Javier San Miguel, a 51-year-old accountant.

Trump tweeted later: "FEMA & First Responders are doing a GREAT job in Puerto Rico." He also took issue with media coverage of the administration's response, writing: "Wish press would treat fairly!"

Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, called for the U.S. military to immediately provide security and distribution of aid in remote areas. "As was said after Hurricane Andrew: 'Where the hell is the cavalry?'" he said in a statement.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pu...ng-them/ar-AAszrgO?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
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Here is the real story.

How anyone can argue that Trump has pulled out all the stops on this one is beyond me. Trump has failed.
 
Toxic Titties said:
You need to President to tell you to go volunteer? Is that what you are reduced to?

I understand your overwhelming need to criticize Trump for everything, but I should remind you that they live on a FUCKING ISLAND and it was devastated by a direct hit from a Cat 4 hurricane. All communications were wiped out. Shitbags like you are sitting back wondering why all of the lights aren't back on.

This is why you are never taken seriously. Come up with some serious criticism and I will listen.
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Re-read the OP. What am I talking about?

Really have to spoon-feed you guys. And yeah - the President being vocal about something can do wonders for volunteer efforts, fundraising, etc. How is it possible to not understand that?
 
Typical parade of Trump apologism here.

I'll say it again: this is Trump's Katrina. He has failed. People are desperate - truly desperate - and he's obsessed with guys who play a game not standing for a song.
 
I love PMSNBC right now. They had to find a Korean War vet to sing his sob story.

Yes, Thingy, you are right. It has been an entire week and all power hasn't been restored and all buildings rebuilt. Damn. Obama would have been down there picking up hammers and nails himself just like he pulled the trigger on Osama
 
Toxic Titties said:
I love PMSNBC right now. They had to find a Korean War vet to sing his sob story.

Yes, Thingy, you are right. It has been an entire week and all power hasn't been restored and all buildings rebuilt. Damn. Obama would have been down there picking up hammers and nails himself just like he pulled the trigger on Osama
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Again - re-read the OP. You are purposefully trying to say that I'm making an argument that I simply am not making, because you don't have a leg to stand on in your relentless Trump apologism.

I have said nowhere, at all - nor do I think - that all of the problems should be solved by now.

But Trump has failed to use the bully pulpit, and his focus shows where his priorities are. And the history will show that; while people waited 6 hours for a gallon of gas while thirsty & starving, he was honed in on NFL players kneeling during a song, before a game.
 
All these people crying and whining on PMSNBC, why don't they charter boats and go down?

Thingy why aren't you down there volunteering? Or is your sole effort for Puerto Rico whining on a lowly trafficked message board? Do you feel better about yourself now Thingy?
 
Thing1 said:
Again - re-read the OP. You are purposefully trying to say that I'm making an argument that I simply am not making, because you don't have a leg to stand on in your relentless Trump apologism.

I have said nowhere, at all - nor do I think - that all of the problems should be solved by now.

But Trump has failed to use the bully pulpit, and his focus shows where his priorities are. And the history will show that; while people waited 6 hours for a gallon of gas while thirsty & starving, he was honed in on NFL players kneeling during a song, before a game.
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You are being silly and you know it. You have no idea what you are talking about. Have you ever lived through anything like this?

The entire infrastructure has been destroyed. Communication, roads, energy. FUCKING EVERYTHING. You think that can turn on a dime?

You self righteous fuck. What are you doing? Just whining on a message board? This isn't defending Trump. This is recognizing the reality of the gravity of what is going on. Like I said, you guys sat back waiting to jump on Florida and Texas and were sad that you couldn't.

When you get up off your fat ass and do something other than whine on this forum then come talk to me
 
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