Donald Trump Makes Himself the Victim in the Puerto Rico Crisis
LatestIn just three tweets on Saturday morning, Donald Trump managed to make the Puerto Rico disaster about himself, to imply that Puerto Ricans are lazy, that the disaster is their problem, and to launch a subtly sexist attack against San Juan mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz–who’s been lauded as a hero–calling her mayday call (of course, a personal attack on Trump) “nasty.”
This follows Cruz’s tearful plea to the government to help on Friday, standing in front of palettes of food and water donated by other people. Cruz said:
I will do what I never thought I was going to do. 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.
If food and water does not arrive in time, she says the disaster will amount to something “close to a genocide.”