Trump and his followers keep saying he is misquoted. And I have seen some articles where the headlines didn't represent the article very well. So I checked his twitter feed myself. His comments on the mayor of San Juan are reported accurately.
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 16h16 hours ago
...want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 16h16 hours ago
...Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They....
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 16h16 hours ago
The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/30/16389484/trump-puerto-rico-san-juan
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One relief worker gave Politico a particularly dire take. “We have to think of this as societal collapse: no power, no water, no food, no nothing,” the official said. “We came in thinking this would be a traditional model of disaster response. … Civil society is pretty much gone, and we didn’t realize that until like 36 or 48 hours ago. And who knows when it’s going to end.”
This is why San Juan’s mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz, has desperately tried to draw more urgency to the crisis. “This is a ‘people are dying’ story,” she told CNN on Friday morning, adding, “not a good news story.”
“I will do what I never thought I was going to do,” Cruz said in a press conference on Friday afternoon. “I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying. If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency.”
This was a direct rebuke to acting secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke’s remarks on Thursday that only a “limited number of deaths … have taken place,” and, overall, Puerto Rico was “a good news story.” As my colleague Julia Belluz explained, there’s a good chance that Duke simply has the facts wrong — and the death toll she relied on to make those comments was outdated. The most recent official figures at the time had the toll at 16, but reporters on the ground have suggested the number is now in the dozens and perhaps more than a hundred.
On Saturday, Cruz posted her own tweet an hour after Trump’s, saying that her only goal is “saving lives.”
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As the reality of the situation in Puerto Rico became more apparent, Trump was golfing, working on his travel ban, starting a feud with NFL players who protest during the national anthem, and escalating a war of words with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Abby Phillip, Ed O'Keefe, Nick Miroff, and Damian Paletta gave a telling example in the Post:
Trump did hold a meeting at his golf club that Friday with half a dozen Cabinet officials — including acting Homeland Security secretary Elaine Duke, who oversees disaster response — but the gathering was to discuss his new travel ban, not the hurricane. Duke and Trump spoke briefly about Puerto Rico but did not talk again until Tuesday, an administration official said.
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Carmen Yulín CruzVerified account @CarmenYulinCruz 15h15 hours ago
The goal is one: saving lives. This is the time to show our "true colors". We cannot be distracted by anything else.
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