Trump is just so damn sick of those whiny babies in Puerto Rico and their stupid humanitarian crisis
After a couple of days in which his responses to the crisis in Puerto Rico somehow managed to lurch themselves over the increasingly low bar labeled “presidential behavior,” Donald Trump apparently looked at the standards of basic human decency this morning and said, “Fuck it, let’s do limbo instead.” Taking time out of his busy, semi-weekly golfing holiday schedule, Trump hopped on Twitter this morning to attack San Juan mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who gave a press conference yesterday in which she had the shocking temerity to suggest that Trump’s government is being lethally inefficient in its handling of the response to the devastation wrought on the territory by Hurricane Maria.
Trump responded to Cruz’s comments—in which she outright told the world, “We are dying,” and begged for aid from all possible sources—by personally insulting her leadership abilities, and suggesting that Puerto Rican workers weren’t doing enough to help their own people in the wake of a disaster that shattered massive portions of the territory’s infrastructure. (He also got some digs in at “Fake News,” because when you’re shitting the bed with this much fervor, you might as well get it all out.)