Oh, No He Didn't!

Sure I missed these pieces of Trumpery from his visit to Puerto Rico. The more you know, the worse it gets.

After the briefing, Trump toured a neighborhood damaged by the storm and posed for pictures with local residents.

He observed that homes built of concrete seemed to have fared better than those made of wood. He told an older woman, “you’re beautiful.”

“We’re gonna help you out,” he told one family. “Have a good time.”

  Bloomberg

Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.

“In Texas and Florida we got an A-plus, and I’ll tell you what, I think we’ve done just as good in Puerto Rico, and it’s actually a much tougher situation,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “Now the roads are clear, the communications are starting to come back.”

Yeah, no. They're not.  Who gave "us" an A-plus?

And, in addition to all the truly horrible things he said about the Puerto Ricans, in his press conference, after he praised the wonderful job "his" people are doing, he rattled on and on about ... well, shit that had nothing to do with the matter.

Well, thank you very much. It was a great trip and a beautiful place. I've been to Puerto Rico many times as, I think, most of you have known. And I've always loved it. And your weather is second to none, but every once in a while you get hit.

[...]

I also — in addition to Tom, I also want to thank Linda McMahon, Small Business. I always joke — I said, she's in charge of small business, but small business is massive business when you add it all up. And she has done an incredible job — built a great company with her husband, Vince McMahon. And I wanted her so badly for this position because there's nobody that knows how to build a company like those and, let me tell you, like this woman. She has been amazing in business, and now she's doing an incredible job as the Administrator. We want to thank you, Linda, very much. (Applause.)

[...]

THE PRESIDENT: And the runways now are pretty open?

AIR FORCE REPRESENTATIVE: Yes, sir. We have four major runways that are fully open and operational; flown about 700-plus strategic airlift sorties to and from OCONUS, (inaudible) Puerto Rico to provide life-sustaining support.

THE PRESIDENT: Amazing job. Amazing job. So amazing that we're ordering hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new airplanes for the Air Force, especially the F-35. Do you like the F-35?

AIR FORCE REPRESENTATIVE: (Inaudible) game-changing technology, awesome airplane.

THE PRESIDENT: I said, how does it do it in fights? And how do they do in fights with the F-35? They said, we do very well. You can't see it. Literally you can't see it. So it’s hard to fight a plane that you can't see, right?

[...]

But that's an expensive plane that you can't see. And as you probably heard, we cut the price very substantially — something that other administrations would never have done, that I can tell you. So thank you very much.

[...]

So I appreciate your support and I know you appreciate our support, because our country has really gone all out to help. And it's not only dangerous, it's expensive, it's everything. But I consider it a great honor, maybe because I know so many people from Puerto Rico that are such great people — I come from New York. But we've gone all out and I consider that, again, a great honor.

  WaPo

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.

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And, Biff? You can see it. If it landed on the White House lawn, you would be able to say, “Look. A fighter jet landed on the White House lawn.” Good god.

  Charles P Pierce

Biff. That's perfect. Every time I hear someone say "President Trump" I get the feeling we're in a movie. This can't be real. And, all that praise? Well, there was this...

THE PRESIDENT: Well, in Texas, it came in, it did devastation, then went right out into the coast, then it came in and out. It came in three times. It would load up with water and come in. Nobody has ever seen water like that.

And the Coast Guard would follow it. It goes in, and they’d be right behind it, and then they’d move. They saved 16,000 lives in Texas.

[...]

What a job the Coast Guard has done throughout this whole — throughout this whole ordeal. (Applause.) They would go right into the middle of that — I mean, I don't know, I wouldn’t want to be doing it, but I want to thank everybody. I want to thank the Coast Guard. They are special, special, very brave people.

And a lot of people got to see the real Coast Guard during this incredible trouble, and especially I think here and in Texas was incredible what they did. So thank you all very much. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Really appreciate it.

Would you like to say something on behalf of your men and women?

AIR FORCE REPRESENTATIVE: Sir, I’m representing the Air Force.

THE PRESIDENT: No, I know that.

Jumped up Jesus.

But HE thought he did a fantastic job in Puerto Rico.  So, naturally, he's not happy with the reporting.

And then, he saw more news...

 

“I think it meant a lot to the people of Puerto Rico that I was there. They really responded very nicely. And I guess it’s one of the few times anybody has done this. From what I am hearing it’s the first time that a sitting president has done something like this,” he said.

  The Star

He got the last part of that right.

I think we all know who's out of control.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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