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(115,692 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)sop
(10,177 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)sop
(10,177 posts)According to the National Hurricane Center: "1,836 fatalities can be attributed to the storm: 1 in Kentucky, 2 each in Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio, 14 in Florida, 238 in Mississippi, and 1,577 in Louisiana." The Bush administration was accused of abandoning primarily black and poor residents of New Orleans in the days following the storm.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)people.
sop
(10,177 posts)and the enormous resulting death toll, not property damage in the surrounding states.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)many. tRump will be pleased.
Initech
(100,075 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,974 posts)Heckuva job Trumpy.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)...than Dubya given how Trump kept on lying about the death toll.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Azathoth
(4,608 posts)Dubya was stupid and incompetent, but I think he genuinely felt bad about the suffering he caused during Katrina.
Fucking Trump not only doesn't care, he sees this as nothing more than an opportunity to stir up his racist base.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)anyone but himself.
Baclava
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(67,108 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Dubya was bumbling and incompetent, but at least he wasn't braggadocios and obsessed with approval ratings throughout it.