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Trump dedicates golf trophy to hurricane victims

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http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-golf-trophy-to-puerto-rico-hurricane-victims


President Trump on Sunday dedicated a golf trophy to the victims of recent powerful storms that tore through Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, all the while defending the government's response to the disasters.


"On behalf of all of the people of Texas, and all of the people -- if you look today and see what is happening, how horrible it is but we have it under really great control -- Puerto Rico and the people of Florida who have really suffered over this last short period of time with the hurricanes, I want to just remember them," the president said.

"And we're going to dedicate this trophy to all of those people that went through so much that we love -- a part of our great state, really part of our great nation," he continued.

Trump's remarks were made as he presented the trophy to U.S. captain Steve Strickler following the Presidents Cup golf tournament in New Jersey.
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Dishwalla said:
Let's make this thread four more times just for the heck of it.
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I don't know why threads get locked. It normalizes this behavior as somehow ordinary or not worthy of attention. This is a callous and shameful display that would have been big news for ANY other President.
 
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Bam Bam Baklava said:
I don't know why threads get locked. It normalizes this behavior as somehow ordinary or not worthy of attention. This is a callous and shameful display that would have been big news for ANY other President.
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Everything this man does would've been big news for ANY other president.
 
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He obviously caught the news criticising him for golfing during this crisis and thought this would smooth things over. What a fuckwit.
 
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The Post had a great perspective on this:

From a glass balcony overlooking the 14th hole of the Presidents Cup golf event, President Trump on Sunday conveyed a clear statement: He would not be intimidated by the outcry over his administration’s response to the devastation on Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

His decision to preside over the Presidents Cup, stopping on the way back to Washington from his own luxury golf club in Bedminster, N.J., is likely to further the outcry from some Puerto Rico officials, congressional Democrats, civic leaders and celebrities that he has compounded a slow federal response to the devastation in Puerto Rico with a personal insensitivity to the suffering.

During Trump’s visit here he sought to convey the confidence of a leader. Wearing a sport coat and a white collared shirt but no tie, the president waved at a crowd in the distance and pumped his fist when a group of VIPs mingling in a courtyard under the balcony noticed him. Then, Trump turned to chat with his hosts — PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and his predecessor, Tim Finchem.

At the end, in a grand gesture at the awards presentation, he acknowledged the victims of hurricanes in Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida, dedicating the trophy to “all those people who went through so much.”

“If you look today and see what’s happening, how horrible it is, but we have it under really great control,” Trump said.

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And as the sun was setting, the president strolled off the course to another round of cheers.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ef8c94-a6e1-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html
 
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Seriously guys, this is nothing. Sorry we're "normalizing" Trump by not having threads about every little stupid thing he says or does.
 
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