Pierce: Trump's Puerto Rican Air Ball

[mcar]

WASHINGTON—Just so happens I crested Capitol Hill in time to see Marine One lift off, carrying the president* away to the first part ofhis journey to visit the Americans in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico. Upon landing, of course, he demonstrated the kind of discreet, yet warm, empathy that has marked his entire time as president*, especially over the last month or so, when he’s had to console the victims of three hurricanes and the bloodiest unfortunate exercise of Second Amendment freedoms in the modern history of the country. From Bloomberg:

“I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack -- because we’ve spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico and that’s fine, we’ve saved a lot of lives… When you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here, with really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobody’s ever seen anything like this,” Trump said. “And what is your death count right now?”

Jesus H. Christ on a dome of high pressure, somebody get the hook....

See, here’s the thing. Biff. The people down there? They don’t have electricity. They don’t have clean drinking water. They’re sweltering to death by the side of the goddamn road. They could care less about the F-35 because you can’t eat it. And, the other thing, Biff, is that the F-35 remains the $4 trillion lemon of the skies. ...

Still, though, who goes to a disaster area where folks are trying to hold cholera at bay with both hands and brags about his shiny new deathtrap of an airplane? Does he have to come back? Is that, like, a rule or something?

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12774237/trumps-puerto-rico-budget-comment/

[gademocrat7]

1. Word.

[Vinca]

2. I love Charlie Pierce and I love that asterisk.

[Solly Mack]

3. From Trump's mouth comes a barren primordial ooze where no life will ever form.

No intelligence will ever develop. All that comes forth is a sticky, destructive mess that taints everything it touches with the stench of Trump's ignorance.

[Thirties Child]

4. If nothing else, this proves he's a sociopath. Absolutely sickening.

[House of Roberts]

5. More like an own goal.

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[trof]

6. 'what is your death count right now?'...ever the score keeper.

[sheshe2]

7. Fug him.

The morgues packed to capacity have not counted their dead. Mass graves are being reported and government officials have ordered 10 Morgue=Containers. Earth to don...they don't need 10...300 capacity Morgue containers for 16 people.

[Bob Loblaw]

11. The best death counts

Magnificent death counts. Death counts the likes of which were never seen during Obama, believe me.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. AND, he asked that out loud, in front of cameras.

Then bragged about..... "a REAL catastrophe, like Katrina"

I have never felt this much disgust about anyone before.

[smirkymonkey]

8. K&R

[Hekate]

9. This

[Ccarmona]

10. He Proves It Daily

That He is Why the 25th Amendment exists.
Time to enforce it.