Trump's Katrina: The ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico

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It's beyond time to make Puerto Rico a state

Now. Do so.

The difference in lighting is that between South Korea and North Korea.

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Next Tuesday is too late.

Anyway, it’s time Puerto Rico became a state. They pay taxes, they fly our flag, they are citizens, they can become president (yet aren’t allowed to vote in the general), no passport is needed to travel there. I suspect a lot of people don’t know most of that, and I bet the president didn’t know, which is the most likely reason for his delayed and weak response.

They are as American as anyone in the mainland and should finally be treated as such.

Basically this. Hurricane Maria was the strongest hurricane in a decade, and American citizens are going to die if Trump doesn't get up off his ass, stop tweeting about the NFL, and go help Puerto Rico and the USVI. It's a humanitarian crisis and Trump needs to be held completely accountable for any loss of life that occurs as a result of his administration's negligence.

Or maybe if we stop spending money on fictional things trying to determine how much polar ice caps melting cause bears to have diarrhea, maybe we could spend it on better forecasting tool to see storms like Maria and give people more time to prepare?

It does not help that the President denies the connection between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and climatic patterns.

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His response is becoming something far worse than the response to Katrina. His attacks on Mayor Cruz make me want to throw up.

She will be one of the stars of the Democratic National Convention in 2020.

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Were I to write a critique of Donald Trump it would be "The President as Entertainer" with the President connected to a depraved Roman Emperor. Of course this is not the legitimate purpose of the President. But the usual superstar entertainer like Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Wayne Newton, or Michael Jackson has a responsibility to put on a show of a certain quality. When the Trump stunts fail, then he ascribes such to his captive audience of 300 million people.