Trump Makes Nice, Says He 'Will Always Be With' People of Puerto Rico

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By NICOLE LAFOND Published OCTOBER 13, 2017 11:04 AM

Just 24 hours after saying the federal government couldn’t “stay in Puerto Rico forever,” President Donald Trump switched gears Friday morning.

Complimenting the “wonderful people of Puerto Rico,” Trump vowed on Twitter to “always be with them!”

Link to tweet

A short time later, during his speech at the Values Voter Summit Friday, he touched on the topic again, saying its “not even a question of a choice” when it comes to helping out Puerto Rico.

“These are people that are incredible people, they suffered gravely and we’ll be there, we’re going to be there. We have really— it’s not even a question of a choice,” he said. “We don’t even want a choice, we’re going to be there as Americans and we love those people and what they’re going through and they’re healing, and their states and territories are healing and healing rapidly.”

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Trump Tells Conservative Christian Audience: Times ‘Are Changing Back’

By MATT SHUHAM Published OCTOBER 13, 2017 11:55 AM

In an address to the Values Voter Summit Friday, President Donald Trump celebrated the power of the presidency to enforce Christian values.

Though much of Trump’s 30-minute remarks ran through his list of “promises I made you,” not one involved a successful congressional action, aside from the Senate’s confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Echoing the introduction of the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who introduced the President, Trump bragged about his re-instating the Mexico City Policy by decree, cutting off funds to international organizations that at all promote abortion as a method of family planning.

He also noted an executive action “to prevent the horrendous Johnson amendment from interfering with your First Amendment rights.” The Johnson amendment prohibits non-profits, including religious organizations, from explicitly campaigning on behalf of political candidates. Though Trump signed an executive order instructing the Treasury Department to loosen its enforcement of the law, he does not have the constitutional power to eliminate it.

The President also mentioned that he had made “official” the National Day of Prayer. So did former President Barack Obama, via executive proclamation, eight years in a row.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. passive-aggressive acting out by a 71 year old adolescent....

[Liberalagogo]

2. "I will always be with them!"

That sounds more like a curse to me.

[Corvo Bianco]

3. "Knew how much their lives sucked before the hurricanes anyway"

If you have to disparage somebody in order to justify letting them die, you need to be locked up.

[msongs]

4. nice analysis and opinion piece nt

[Midnight Writer]

5. The casualty toll in PR is about to explode, and the Administration is trying to get ahead of it.

[Kber]

6. So FEMA can't stay but Trump will?

Haven't these poeple suffered enough??

[Madam45for2923]

7. Abuser.

[NCjack]

8. Puerto Rico: It feels like #45 is patting you on the back, but what he is really doing is ... nt

[sakabatou]

11. "[T]he first stage is to express absolute support."

"Why?"
"Because you don't want to go on record as saying somebody is no good. You must be seen to be their friend. After all, it is necessary to get behind someone before you can stab them in the back."

[louis-t]

9. Fraud.

[mreilly]

10. I believe the opposite of what he says except...

... for the threats and negative remarks. Therefore when he says "we can't stay in Puerto Rico" forever he intends to cut aid. And then when he says he'll "always be with Puerto Rico" he's telling them they'd better bend over when he says so.

[lark]

12. Lies, lies, and dastardly killing lies.

That's all that comes out of his mouth. If it sounds nice, it's automatically a total lie as nice does not live in that dementia addled hate filled space that contains brains in others.

[ATL Ebony]

13. Guess someone spelled out how bad the optics were on his comments --

SCREEEEEEECH!! Reverse course