Hurricane Dorian hasn’t yet made landfall in Puerto Rico, but Donald Trump is already picking at old wounds, reviving attacks on the island territory and its leaders as the storm bears down
Hurricane Dorian hasn’t yet made landfall in Puerto Rico, but President Donald Trump is already picking at old wounds, reviving attacks on the island territory and its leaders as the storm bears down.
“We are tracking closely tropical storm Dorian as it heads, as usual, to Puerto Rico,” he said in a tweet, pledging that “FEMA and all others are ready, and will do a great job.” Trump also continued to dismiss the island’s nearly 3 million residents — all U.S. citizens — as being insufficiently grateful for federal aid, and continued to conflate a long-term estimated price tag for the recovery from the 2017 hurricanes with the amount of money Congress has actually appropriated.
Trump’s comments only “stand in the way” of relief efforts, she said, suggesting the president butt out “if you can't say anything nice.” And while Cruz explicitly told the president to remain hands off in the coming days, she acknowledged that he did not deserve all of the blame for the fumbled response to the 2017 storms that left nearly 3,000 dead and parts of the island without power for almost a year. The island has still not fully recovered from the disasters, Cruz said.
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