My heart bleeds for this country.

[sheshe2]

This president is letting her citizens die, willfully, maliciously and joyously. He went to Puerto Rico today to humiliate her people, disparage the workers and poked fun at them saying their disaster was nothing they only lost 16 people. Mass graves are being reported now in Puerto Rico. Morgue-Containers ordered BY THE GOVERNMENT...10 of them now to hold 300 bodies each. 70% of the island has no electricity, no fresh running water, no plumbing, no food and no medicine. Dead animals and feces are going into their streams. Diseases, old ones are spreading, the death count will be devastating. Shitler laughs with glee as he heaped praise after praise for himself as people are dying. The man...the "Commander in Chief" has no clue what is happening. The man is deaf dumb, blind.....and soulless. This, the man that dedicated a gold fucking presidential golf trophy for people that are crying out for help. They want to live, it is that simple and he just does not get it.

[rurallib]

1. they are the party of death

[BigmanPigman]

4. They are committing a slow form of genocide

through lack of affordable healthcare, lack of confronting climate change resulting in more natural disasters, and lack of gun control. The root of all of it the GOP and their greed and hypocrisy. They are the party of sociopaths! I am beyond angry and nauseated.

My country has been killed by the GOP over the past 35 years. RIP USA.

[Perseus]

2. I think he does get it

He is just mean, and has a dark soul.

But again, read Noam Chomsky's interview in Huffington Post, trump is a great decoy for what Ryan and Co. are doing behind the scenes, where no one can watch them, trump is just used as the perfect distraction.

If you think trump has no soul you need to see Ryan up close, his soul is very dark.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Mean, petty, vindictive, ruthless when he thinks he's publicly humiliated.

And yes, soulless.

[cwydro]

3. K and r.

With sorrow.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Who gives this dolt his information?

tRump surely has a pack of compliant minders that give him nothing but news that feeds his narrative and his ego. How could he be so shielded from the truth there? If he wasn't shielded, I guarantee you some Puerto Ricans would be flat-out in his face.

This whole pack of miscreants needs to be run out of the White House, then make them all live in the flood-ravaged parts of PR, Texas or Florida.

[Fred Sanders]

6. He is not Satan but Satan surely approves.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Presented with the coveted GOP Seal of Bad Nationkeeping.

[sheshe2]

7. It isn't even about the information here.

He does not give one damn about them. THEY ARE NOT WHITE.

[melman]

11. "THEY ARE NOT WHITE"

As of the 2010 US census, people who self-identified as white constituted the majority in Puerto Rico, making up 75.8% of the population. People who identified themselves as being of mixed race origin, predominantly of West African and European ancestry, constitute an additional 11.1% of the population.[2][1]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Puerto_Ricans

[sheshe2]

21. See post 20

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029669711#post20

[Me.]

12. He Doesn't Actually Care About Anyone But Himself

He's interested in whites only because they can/will vote for him.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. Yes, and I agree he is very racist and elitist, as his history demonstrates.

What I was referring to is the very intentional lies he tells - even in front of those affected - that serve no purpose (that I can see) other than to throw red meat to his base (as Hillary said today).

One could even argue that he could actually expand his voter base by being kind and supportive to these destitute folks. The shear coldness baffles me - and I often see that expressed in overseas media, too.

Just defies all logic - as does everything tRump.

[lapucelle]

20. Some context for the cited 2010 census data.

"According to the 2015 Race and Hispanic Origin estimate (2011-2015 American Community Survey) published by the US Census Bureau, the data for Puerto Rico was as follows in 2015:

White alone 2,495,997
Black or African American alone 301,519
American Indian and Alaska Native alone 11,775
Asian alone 10,159
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 129
Some Other Race alone 431,443
Two or More Races 332,051
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 3,547,288
White alone, Not Hispanic or Latino 24,900"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Puerto_Rico#Race_and_ethnic_group

[spanone]

10. he's not fit to be human

[SHRED]

13. Our country is having a breakdown

Mental and emotional.

[HipChick]

16. This....

[lunamagica]

15. She, the problem is that he doesn't care. To him only rich white males are human...but even then

considering his reaction to an elderly rich man who fell and was bleeding, which "disgusted" him, and his only concern was for his marble floor getting stained with blood. He is a true psychopath.

The tragedy is that someone like that was put in charge, and millions still support him

[herding cats]

17. Eventually he will be held accountable for these heinous acts.

Which won't mitigate the damaged done. Therein lies the problem, nothing will undo the damage already done, and nothing can bring the dead back to life.

[ehrnst]

18. It's exhausting, watching the nightmare unfold. (nt)

[raven mad]

19. NOT "because we're lazy". I am old and ill.

And have helped load 2 full semi trucks since last week.