Trump Complains to Geraldo Rivera He Didn't Get 'Thank You' For Puerto Rico Storm Response

[DonViejo]

by Colby Hall | Sep 24th, 2018, 10:31 am

The aftermath of two hurricanes that ravaged Puerto Rico last year led to almost 3,000 deaths. But there is another, more political, victim to come from that disaster: President Donald Trump.

In a radio interview with Geraldo Rivera, the Commander in Chief complained that he didn’t get a “thank you” for his Puerto Rican storm response. This stands in stark contrast to the criticism received by the Trump administration by critics who saw a less intense response to the U.S. island territory in comparison to similar storms that have hit states within the contiguous United States such as Florida, Texas, and more recently, North Carolina.

“I can feel the hurt in your voice,” Rivera told the President as he defended White House rescue efforts.

Trump agreed, lamenting the response he received: “Instead of getting thank you, we got nothing but bad publicity.”

President Trump has derided a study commissioned by the Puerto Rican government that found that almost 3,000 people died as a result of the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico as political in nature, designed only to spread bad news. Trump has called the response an “unsung success” seeing as the very nature of island state creates for a much more difficult rescue scenario.

Mr. Trump called out the San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, as a “horror show”after the mayor recently called Mr. Trump “delusional, paranoid and unhinged from any sense of reality” for denying the officially accepted death count of 3,000 from the hurricane.

“You have the mayor of San Juan who’s incompetent. She should never be there. She’s just doesn’t know what she’s doing, she’s totally incompetent person. You have as you know locally they did a very, very poor job. The electric was broken before the storms that got hit by two storms, not one.”

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[Maeve]

1. Throw them some more paper towels. And keep one for your own tears. eom

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Geraldo didn't point out how incredible ineffectual

the response was? Jeez.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Try to pry your lips off Trump's butt for just a minute, Geraldo.

"I can feel the hurt in your voice"?

"The electric was broken"?

Fuck, I give up. This is more stupid than I can handle this morning.

[RockRaven]

4. FDR didn't get a thank you for Pearl Harbor. GWB didn't get a thank you for 9/11.

Life is so unfair to Presidents.

[MiniMe]

8. With GWB, it would be more no thank you for Katrina

[RobinA]

5. Wait!!!

We're supposed to get thanked for doing our job? Even if we make total hash out of it? I've been ripped off for 30-some years. And I've always done at least a pretty good job. Never been thanked. Nope, not once.

[angela232]

6. The presidency - it's a thankless job!

[gopiscrap]

12. angela232 welcome to du

[JHB]

7. Write "thank you" on a Nike and throw the shoe at him.

Doubt he has Dubya's reflexes.

[lame54]

9. Set it on fire first

[meow2u3]

10. What does he want from PR? Thanks for killing their loved ones and making them suffer?

Puerto Rican were supposed to show Trump gratitude for throwing paper toweling at them and leaving them without roofs over their heads, food to eat, and dignity. How dare they complain while their loved ones died because of massive, island-wide power outages!

[smirkymonkey]

11. He expects thanks?

What a whiney little cry-baby! You're the fucking president, grow up you candy-ass!