Fat Joe said Donald Trump was delusional in his assessment of Hurricane Maria and he may be right. Reports over the last week reveal the number that died in Puerto Rico was extremely larger than previously believed. How does Trump account for the amounts of deaths rising? Old age.
The President returned to his favorite means of reaching the United States citizens, Twitter, to let off what may be his most flagrant tweet of the week. Then again, it is just Thursday.
“This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico,” Trump tweeted. “If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!”
Check out the tweets addressing the situation from last year below and pray that he has some tact or adequate plan for all of our friends on the East Coast this upcoming weekend.
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2018
…..This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2018
