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[SoundofSilence]

"The response and recovery effort probably has never been seen for something like this," Trump said. "This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water."

He added that Puerto Rico will have to rebuild its infrastructure from "scratch."

"The electrical grid and other infrastructure were already in very, very poor shape, they were at their life's end prior to the hurricanes, and now virtually everything has been wiped out," Trump said. "We're literally starting from scratch."

Trump said the federal government will work with Puerto Rico to figure out how to fund the rebuilding effort and "what we will do with the tremendous amount of existing debt already on the island."

Uh huh
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-puerto-rican-crisis-island-164503473.html

 

[PoorChoices]

Well, he's not wrong. Puerto Rico is surrounded by water.

 

[Sectorseven]

Lake water islands > ocean water islands.

 

[Escape Goat]

Makes Bush sound like Billy Shakespeare.

 

[Dishwalla]

No kidding?

 

[Akuun]

Dude's making Dan Quayle sound smart.

 

[kAmui-]

All of those things are true...

 

[JCHandsom]

Trump: "7.8/10 too much water"

 

[Strike]

So is Hawaii. These are facts.

 

[18-Volt]

It's literally impossible not to read that in his voice. Or Alec Baldwin's.

 

[Zetta]

Trump is right, its a Yuuge amount of ocean water.

 

[AdventureMike]

This whole thing makes me so angry. This has been a shitshow of aid and everyone involved from Trump's administration should be ashamed of their negligence.

 

[UberTag]

Dude's making Dan Quayle sound smart.

Trump makes preschoolers sound smart.

 

[Jeremy]

You can tell he's bothered about having to help people that he and his base don't feel are "True Americans".

 

[Codeblue]

Hurricanes are clearly a product of Big Water's agenda.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Dude's making Dan Quayle sound smart.

It's crazy how impossible this presidency would be by the standards of Dan Quayle's day. Dan Quayle got sunk for things like spelling potato wrong and comparing himself to JFK.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

water water everywhere so lets all have a drink

 

[malfcn]

He is a smart man.

 

[Imperfected]

Maybe Trump, having realized he has a chronic lying problem, has resolved to deal with it by stating only completely objective and nearly inarguable facts from now on.

 

[cyress8]

Sworn someone made a joke about him saying that in the thread when the hurricane hit.

 

[Naughty_Doge]

So is Hawaii. These are facts.

Big water? Bigger than Puerto Rico's?

 

[Akainu]

Like poetry.

 

[Anung]

Water is wet.

 

[Darryl M R]

So is this a blunder comparable to Katrina?

 

[Lord Fagan]

At some point, somebody in the press pool needs to just say to him, straight up, "Thanks a lot President Obvious!"

 

[To Far Away Times]

I mean... he's not wrong.

 

[theechrisfox]

So is this a blunder comparable to Katrina?

Electing trump was a bigger international disaster.

 

[psynergylover]

Trump on dat second-hand high.

 

[Jeffolation]

It's why the U.S. lost the pacific campaign during WWII, all that fucking god durned water.

 

[Slayven]

So is this a blunder comparable to Katrina?

I say worse, Bush was inept. Trump is malicious

 

[NimbusD]

What does he mean 'we' are rebuilding from scratch? WTF is he doing to be included in that.

 

[DeviantBoi]

I bet his briefing that morning included a map of Puerto Rico... and his mind processed it like "an island, water, big water, ocean".

 

[AdventureMike]

So is this a blunder comparable to Katrina?

I think it's worse. He is actively impeding relief efforts. I don't think we've ever had that. We've had individuals who were bad at the job and just didn't do it well. He's been straight up trying to HINDER them.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

At some point, somebody in the press pool needs to just say to him, straight up, "Thanks a lot President Obvious!"

I'd already be happy with "Mr. President are you a moron?"

 

[mcw]

Even if he personally is a completely callous individual, even if his administration is full of selfish and thoughtless fools, you would think that someone, somewhere in that building, understands the value of at least appearing to have some compassion instead of talking only about debts at this time.

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

I get the feeling Trump has "never seen before" a lot of things after living his whole life in an Ivory Tower.

 

[MIMIC]

Water is wet.

Very wet. Ocean wet.

 

[Loudninja]

Why doe she sound like he just found this out or something?

 

[mike6467]

I say worse, Bush was inept. Trump is inept and malicious

FTFY

 

[Mr. Poolman]

You guys elected a complete idiot as president.

 

[Saroyan]

Sounds like a 4th grader writing a research paper

 

[GodofWine]

What does he mean 'we' are rebuilding from scratch? WTF is he doing to be included in that.

He gets to say we. He's the president of the country (shudders) and its common to refer to it was 'we'.

Now, I will pretty much disagree with everything else out of his big dumb face, so Im not trying to fight you very much on this!

 

[Beartruck]

Are we sure he's not mentally disabled? He speaks like a 5th grader doing a presentation on Puerto Rico who's just winging it.

 

[radios shipping overview]

STOP MAKING EXCUSES YOU RACIST ASSHOLE.

 

[GKSilKamina]

Yes. Puerto Rico is indeed surrounded by ocean water. Not river water. Not lake water. Not spring water.

Ocean water.

 

[Shadybiz]

So is this a blunder comparable to Katrina?

Probably worse just for the fact that he ACTIVELY impaired recovery by not waiving the Jones Act immediately (said that the US shipping industry didn't want it waived)...as was done for Harvey and Irma victims in Texas and Florida.

 

[Szadek]

Island

noun
1. a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.

Looks like he is right for once.

 

[Saucycarpdog]

So is this a blunder comparable to Katrina?

Katrina was very bad but Maria was worse. New Orleans wasn't surrounded by the bigly water that Porto Enrique is surrounded by. Portobello Rico is in worse shape then it's ever been but we're going to make it great again and the cleanup will be something that the world has never seen before and the people of that foreign country are gonna be very thankful to us. Very thankful.

 

[Sianos]

"islands are surrounded by ocean water" - the president of the united states of america

 

[dvolovets]