They Are US Citizens
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are American territories. Their citizens are US citizens. People wondered: Does Trump care about Puerto Rico’s hurricane victims? No, he doesn’t and he still hasn’t mentioned the Virgin Islands which also got smashed.
When he finally made a statement whoever briefed him failed to explain they are in the Caribbean, not the Atlantic. While he believes them to be very difficult to reach, by Friday of last week Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, had visited both and brought supplies and emergency personnel with him.
When he finally mentioned Puerto Rico, Trump was more concerned about the money Puerto Rico owes Wall Street than the disaster the people are experiencing. He has refused to suspend the Jones Act that requires goods shipped between US ports be carried on US flagged vessels with US crews. He suspended the Act for both Florida and Texas which have road access, but not the islands.
Trump is, was, and always will be a schmuck.
Update: This morning the “White House” announced that the Jones Act would be suspended to help the relief efforts for Puerto Rico. Note that Trump didn’t announce this, it came from the “White House” [via Twitter, of course].
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And the schmuck’s Homeland bozos just formulated a new rule: see
thehill.com/…/352421-dhs-planning-to-collect-social-media-info-on-all-immigrants
And all immigrants includes me, a naturalized citizen. Except, other than this, I don’t use social media… At all. This probably will put me into another category: Suspiciously lack of suspicion.
This may be the land of the free and home of the brave but the Administration is packed with cowards, fascists, white supremacists and Mammon worshippers.
These clowns have a really hard time with the Constitution, especially the bill of rights. On the Internet no one knows who anyone is, and a lot of people are role playing. Wasting money and resources watching social media is a total waste. If they are going to do it, why have they done something about RealDonaldTrump on Twitter. Now there’s a real radical nutcase…. 😈