I still can't get past as to how stunningly horrific the Madman's approach to Puerto Rico has been.
Not that Puerto Rico has been the only thing in recent days that Trump has responded to in a stunningly horrific manner. Far from it.
But unfortunately, there will be no TV cameras rolling when a person or a family who had been receiving subsidies under the ACA realizes they can't afford health coverage without them.
However, there has been plenty of footage of the devastation and human suffering of fellow American citizens in Puerto Rico.
To be empathetic and understanding and desire to speak and act in a way that invites nothing but comfort to people in such a condition should be one of the most easiest things for another human being to show.
But Donald Trump has gone above and out of his way to demonstrate he is not a normal human being, and the people of Puerto Rico are the ones who have felt his wrath the most.
What does it tell you that the one of the very first things Trump said in response to the hurricane was not even a token "thoughts and prayers" but a shaming of the island for its "broken infrastructure and big debt"?
Then he sat silent on suspending the Jones Act to allow greater relief for nearly a week, choosing instead to obsess constantly over some NFL players who chose to kneel for the national anthem.
Then he attacks "ungrateful politicians" in Puerto Rico, and singling out in particular the Mayor of San Juan, who had committed no sin greater than asking for further assistance for her city and her island. He insinuates she's lazy, and does all of this from the dry comfort of his New Jersey golf resort, while she's literally been walking through flooded streets trying to help her constituents.
The following day he further demonstrates his commitment to Puerto Rico by traveling from his own golf course to another golf course, where he engages in the hard work of watching a golf tournament. But it's okay, because at the end of the day, he dedicates the golf trophy to the people of Puerto Rico.
For real.
Finally, he gets off his fat ass and flies down to Puerto Rico, where he again used the opportunity to lecture Puerto Ricans about what a deadbeat strain they are on our economy. He tells people there to "Have a great time!", insinuates that what they've been through wasn't a "real catastrophe like Katrina," clicks a flashlight like a bored five year old and tells an island where 95% of the people don't have power, "You don't need these anymore!"
And then he takes a 12 pack of paper towels and chucks them into the crowd like he's Billy the Marlin shooting t-shirts during the middle of the sixth inning.
He returns and--noting the outrage about the utter insensitivity he's shown towards Puerto Ricans so far--blames the media and declares, "Nobody could have done what I’ve done for #PuertoRico with so little appreciation. So much work!"
He actually said that. He both blatantly lies, and simultaneously makes the situation about himself.
Because he's the victim here.
Finally, yesterday is the coup de grace, telling storm affected Puerto Ricans (the vast majority still without power, water, roads and increasingly food) that their aid won't last forever and hinting at shutting off that aid sooner than later.
How wonderful Stalin of you, Mr. President, you inhuman, unfeeling, clinically abnormal waste of shit.
I still can't process this, that this is how a President reacts to the suffering of his own people. With nothing short of utter contempt and maliciousness.
To people in suffering and in need of help.
They've done nothing wrong. They just want help. Or at the very least understanding and words of comfort.
You can't even give them that. That little thing--comforting them. Acting like an appropriate adult. Not making this about you but them, because they are the victim here.
How is it possible you can't even do that?
I'm disgusted. But I'm in no way surprised. After all, this is the same person who after the young son of actress Kelly Preston tragically died, his version of condolences to her was how to talk about how he unsuccessfully tried to date her. This is the same person who after a person collapsed on the floor during an event at his house could only obsess over the blood on his "beautiful marble floor."
History will remember him as nothing but a cruel, cruel psychopath. And what we have seen with Puerto Rico is Exhibit A of that fact, front and center.
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