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In reply to the discussion: San Juan mayor on MSNBC: Trump's throwing supplies "terrible & abominable" - VIDEO [View all]Leith
(7,808 posts)41. He Was Just Playing Games
He was in a center with electricity and food, where people had showers and clean clothes, and were healthy.
He never went to where roads had been washed out. He never saw dead people stuffed in garbage bags because there was nothing left to do with the bodies. People in the mountainous interior areas don't have food, water, electricity, or medicine. Trump posed for cameras and made stupid jokes.
I swear if he talks about his hotel in Vegas tomorrow, I will throw my TV out the window and jump on it.
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San Juan mayor on MSNBC: Trump's throwing supplies "terrible & abominable" - VIDEO [View all]
highplainsdem
Oct 2017
OP
Puerto Rico gets flooded out and Trump brings Bounty Towels to the rescue.
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2017
#33
This is "goes viral fast" material, don't you think? It was pretty potent stuff she was saying.
Amaryllis
Oct 2017
#11
Just edited the OP to add a video link from Maddow Blog. Expect to see it on Mediaite soon.
highplainsdem
Oct 2017
#25
Agree. Already seeing lots of tweets saying Trump will not be able to ignore this.
highplainsdem
Oct 2017
#20
She is not in "the fringe party" the Partido Popular and the PNP are constantly
Guy Whitey Corngood
Oct 2017
#57
Guessing Trump wanted something more dramatic than handing out supplies, needed something light
highplainsdem
Oct 2017
#31
IT'S HIS NARCISSISM AT WORK. THAT is what makes sense. Trump is beyond disgusting here,
WinkyDink
Oct 2017
#37
I am STILL wondering why the mayor is not showing the hundreds of dead Maria victims in the
Not Ruth
Oct 2017
#65
Look closely at that group. They look like "Fake hurricane victims" to me. Photo-Op props.
WinkyDink
Oct 2017
#39