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| Photo by Getty Images, via The Hill, from its report last week on the GAO finding that FEMA was grossly understaffed and overwhelmed by last year's hurricane season; that was before we learned Trump had diverted $10 million from the emergency management agency to ICE and the persecution of undocumented immigrants away from the border. |
In fact @NydiaVelazquez and Bennie Thompson were demanding a better count from DHS a couple of weeks after the storm, but your FEMA administrator Brock Long turned them down. "Not my responsibility" https://t.co/kXtuYOTso8— Yasphalt Jungle (@Yastreblyansky) September 15, 2018
Then they went to GAO, in December. It was already clear more than 1000 people had died. That's when Rosselló finally ordered a recount. https://t.co/j0CrDKMRc5 There was nothing "magical" about it.— Yasphalt Jungle (@Yastreblyansky) September 15, 2018
Rosselló finally tasked GWU with the research in February 2018, when your GAO said their work on it "wouldn't begin for several months." https://t.co/KnBkVjeW22— Yasphalt Jungle (@Yastreblyansky) September 15, 2018
I don't think so. I think it just wasn't on Fox, and you don't listen to anybody else including your own cabinet members, and you just didn't know anything about it, and that's why you were bragging on Monday about 'fantastic job" on Puerto Rico https://t.co/wlLV4ajDx0— Yasphalt Jungle (@Yastreblyansky) September 15, 2018
And now that you've been caught in your complete ignorance, you buffoon, you're trying to brazen it out and pretend you're not wrong, and your fearful courtiers are probably going to back you up.— Yasphalt Jungle (@Yastreblyansky) September 15, 2018
Obviously Trump isn't to blame in anything like the way you could argue George W. Bush was responsible for the horror of Hurricane Katrina. (H/t Thornton for pointing it out on the Twitter.) There's a lot to pass around, starting with the crazy colonial way the island has been administered since it was conquered in 1898, damnfool Teddy Roosevelt riding up the hill and all, with a local government almost as weak as that of DC, and treated far worse by Congress (which has to live in DC and cares whether people there live or die). The problems of Puerto Rico will persist long after Trump is gone, unless mainlanders finally begin to recognize the inhabitants as fellow Americans and human beings, and unless the federal government as a whole begins treating Puerto Ricans living on the island as citizens of somewhere, either with real representation in Washington or some form of real independence or both.
But the ridiculousness of Trump demanding credit for the catastrophe—asking to be praised for the "fantastic" job he did—is too much.
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