Donald Trump To Visit Louisiana Areas Hit by Flooding

[jpak]

Source: Time

Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence plan to tour flooded areas in Louisiana on Friday.

Details of the trip have not been publicly released, and Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Richard Carbo, a spokesman for the Louisiana governor’s office, told CBS on Thursday that they had not been contacted about the Republican nominee’s trip. Carbo said he welcomed Trump to the state, “but not for a photo-op,” and that he should “consider volunteering or making a sizable donation to the LA Flood Relief Fund to help the victims of this storm.”

Trump opened his speech in North Carolina Thursday night with words for Louisiana, “a state that is very special to me,” he said.

“When one state hurts, we all hurt – and we must all work together to lift each other up,” Trump continued. “Our prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones, and we send them our deepest condolences. Though words cannot express the sadness one feels at times like this, I hope everyone in Louisiana knows that our country is praying for them and standing with them to help them in these difficult hours.”

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Read more: http://time.com/4458832/donald-trump-louisiana-flooding/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. "Heckuva job, Trumpie!"

That 70s blow dry hair will be real popular for Zika mosquito nesting!

Is Melania writing your speech this week?

[forgotmylogin]

17. "Hey, look at this! You got your own swimming pool! I always wanted one this big."

[Hortensis]

22. Imo, last line: "Mine's much bigger, yoooooge."

Lol. I'm imagining Trump practicing looking caring in front of the mirror. He's mostly incapable, except for perhaps brief moments, of course.

[onecent]

2. I hope his suits get rain-soaked

[Aviation Pro]

3. So....

....instead of setting the example that POTUS is and NOT disrupting the recovery effort, the bald-headed, Putin-fellating, self-centered, small-dicked, walking shitstain is going to fly into a largely African-American city to blow his trumpet and wad over the citizens of the town?

Fuck you and the Eastern European clothes horse you rode in on, you fucking asshat.

[Still In Wisconsin]

4. Dude...

you forgot short-fingered.

[hibbing]

15. hehe ba da ding

[MFM008]

28. X 1000

.....

[MynameisBlarney]

5. Yeah, this oughtta be good.

What's he gonna do? Insult the flood waters away?

Asshole.

[woofless]

25. He's gonna point and laugh.

[underpants]

6. I knew he was going to do this

He is following RW talking points everyday. Hillary's health, Iran payment, now this.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They gave him stuff to read

but it won't be long before he goes off script again. "Off-script" is his nature.

[underpants]

9. I don't know

I'm getting a bad feeling that this is going to get a lot tighter.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Depending on how this plays out

he may put Louisiana in play.

[underpants]

14. Okay. That was really funny.

My post on this
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512373861#post7

[BumRushDaShow]

19. !!!!

But now this just happened - http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141554250

Should be an interesting day for sure!

[turbinetree]

7. Think I will watch a clip of the Nightly Show I will get more useful information

drumpsfster is really tiring, and besides Larry Wilmore show is coming to an end---------------sad


http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/lewis-black-nightly-show-election-has-stop

[Cracklin Charlie]

18. I haven't broken the news to my husband yet.

He loves Larry.

[turbinetree]

26. Well if it makes it any better sit down with him and do this

And then send him and his team a card and tell him that he

[whistler162]

10. How many of his personal millions

will he donate to the flood victims? I know take any number and multiply it by that evil Arab thing called a zero for the total.

[PatSeg]

13. Or how much money is he going

to claim he is donating to the flood victims? In Trump World, saying is the same as doing!

[groundloop]

23. Or how many sandbags is he going to fill??

I'd love to see that pampered fucker do even an hour of honest work.

I have a right wing cousin spouting off on facebook about how tRump is going to Louisiana when Hillary and Pres. Obama are staying away. OBVIUOUSLY tRump is just doing a photo-op, but so far they're getting some traction out of it.

[Liberalagogo]

11. Haven't those people suffered enough?

First the floods, and now this.

[turbinetree]

16. Since he does everything for his own personnel gain, somehow , someway, some form,

how does one pad your pockets on this and not make it look like another scheme or a fraud in the making?
How does one bill themselves for this on the campaign trail?

[anneboleyn]

20. The gov asked him NOT to come but of course the unbelievable shitshow right now w/his plane

arriving (all being displayed live on CNN) is absolutely disgusting. Now the streams of police and a dozen black SUVs coming in to escort this pompous ass -- while the state is suffering immensely and can't spare the resources -- but OF COURSE he shoves himself into a photo-op with the suffering people of LA. He is just disgusting. Stuttering David Gergen is wondering where Ivanka and Melania are since they have disappeared.

[Cryptoad]

21. Just what these people need....

Trump and and all his people and security team getting in the way of them getting their lives back to some kinda normalcy .

[LynneSin]

24. The Governor (who is a democrat) asked that Obama not visit the area just yet

Because of the security needed to bring in a president for a tour it would take away resources and block roads needed for the recovery.

I suspect Hillary will not visit right away. I also suspect that the Louisiana's governor's message will get buried in the news.

[forest444]

27. Bingo.

All most voters will remember is: "Trump visited Louisiana; but Obama and Hillary didn't. Boo!!"

You gotta hand it to them: Fascist News - and the Wegman "people meters" that convinced everyone they were getting stellar ratings - was a stoke of genius.

[Angel Martin]

34. Actually, Obama will now go on Tuesday

http://www.wcbi.com/trump-visits-louisiana-ahead-of-obama/

[forest444]

35. Good.

Optics are important.

You and I both know, because we've taken the time to read about what's been actually happening on the ground, that Obama's response to this crisis is like night and day compared to the Shrub's "heck of a job" after Katrina.

But these presidential visits are extremely important for the impression they give voters in general (who should know better; but such is life).

[MFM008]

29. Does anyone remember

The scene in "Schindler List" where Oskar tries to convince Amon to be more benevolent , " I pardon you"?
It worked a couple of times until he shoots the guy in the back for lying?
That's Rump. Someone told him to work on being a "compassionate conservative". It's only a matter of time before he starts shooting people in the back again.

[APPPLE_PIE]

30. Thanks for your generosity Donald.

Thank You Donald for the relief packages, but I don't see any minorities getting relief packages from "The Donald." What the Hey!!!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. First, we get raw sewage backing up on us, and now this. nt

[groundloop]

32. Breitbart "News" has already covered this, asking why Hillary and Pres. Obama didn't go

Never mind the fact that the Governor specifically said to stay away. I've already had right wing relatives posting Breitbart shit on facebook about this. The problem here is that this publicity will never get 'un-done', people won't bother to gather the facts relating to the Governor asking high profile politicians to stay out for now.

[YOHABLO]

33. So Trump will be offering free apts in his apt and hotel buildings for the homeless? ? ?

That ass..ole doesn't know what suffering entails. Ever.

[LeftRant]

36. I just saw Rat-Face (Eric) Trump slamming the president for not visiting.

He did the usual rightwing "He's playing golf instead..." B.S.



I don't know what his current numbers are, but at last check he was WAY behind Vice-President Bush:

On Aug. 8, 2014, Knoller tweeted that Obama had taken 19 vacations totaling 125 days so far while in office. Those numbers have risen a bit due to the Martha’s Vineyard vacation, but that’s still many fewer than George W. Bush’s 65 combined trips to his Texas ranch and his parents’ home in Kennebunkport, Maine, which totaled 407 days at the same point in his presidency.

Not included in this data are trips to the Camp David presidential retreat in western Maryland, which Knoller doesn’t count as "vacation." Knoller told Yahoo! News that, through Aug. 12, 2014, Obama had made 33 visits to Camp David for all or part of 84 days, while Bush had been there 108 times for all or part of 341 days.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/aug/23/who-took-more-vacation-george-w-bush-or-barack-oba/