Donald Trump. (photo: Nigel Parry/CNN)
01 October 17
From his golf course, Trump said that the mayor had “poor leadership ability” and that the island wanted a hand-out
fter the mayor of Puerto Rico's capital begged
President Donald Trump's administration for additional assistance and
criticized the lackluster federal response to the devastation caused by
Hurricane Maria, the president attacked her "leadership ability" on
Twitter, and said that the island wanted "everything to be done for
them."
On Friday, Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, pleaded with the Trump administration to boost aid efforts to Puerto Rico.
"We are dying here," she said. "What we we are going to see is something close to a genocide."
She added, "I cannot fathom the thought that the
greatest nation in the world cannot figure out the logistics for a small
island of 100 miles by 35 miles. So, mayday we are in trouble."
The island is almost entirely without power, and
nearly 1.5 million people — 44 percent — of the population doesn't have
access to potable drinking water.
"This is what we got last night. Four pallets of
water, three pallets of meals, and 12 pallets of infant food — which, I
gave them to the people of Comerio, where people are drinking off a
creek," Cruz said, according to NBC News. "So I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell."
So the president does what he does best: rage over
Twitter and attack a desperate leader in a time of dire need — from his
golf course in New Jersey.
"The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary
only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be
nasty to Trump," he shamelessly tweeted early on Saturday morning.
"Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San
Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers
to help. They ... want everything to be done for them when it should be a
community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a
fantastic job," he wrote in two separate tweets that followed.
In numerous tweets that followed he touted his
administration's relief efforts and attacked "The Fake News Networks"
which he claimed "are working overtime in Puerto Rico doing their best
to take the spirit away from our soldiers and first R's. Shame!"
Cruz responded on Twitter and reminded everyone of the real task at hand.
"The goal is one: saving lives. This is the time to
show our "true colors". We cannot be distracted by anything else," she
wrote.
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