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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps biggest Puerto Rican critic will be in the audience for the State of the Union
On Monday morning, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced that she is bringing Carmen Cruz, the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to President Donald Trumps first State of the Union address.
Link to tweet
Cruz has become the unexpected face of the devastated, and still resilient territory of Puerto Rico, which suffered an indirect hit from Hurricane Irma and a direct hit from Hurricane Maria last summer.
Her position was elevated even more after the President of the United States, whose role after disasters is normally to lift vulnerable people up and inspire the world to come to their aid, picked an immature fight with her on Twitter.
After Cruz took to the airwaves to plead directly with Trump to ensure federal disaster recovery was working effectively in the face of a humanitarian crisis she said could get close to a genocide, Trump attacked her on Twitter. He said she had poor leadership and accused Puerto Ricans of wanting everything to be done for them. He then patted himself on the back for his handling of the disaster. Cruz responded to Trump with images of Puerto Ricans working to rebuild, saying: The goal is one: saving lives. This is the time to show our true colors. We cannot be distracted by anything else.
https://thinkprogress.org/carmen-cruz-guest-trumps-first-sotu-8c732fd1f4dc/
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)Maybe her divorce lawyer?
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,155 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)will have her removed before Daddy arrives.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)for Stormy Daniels in the gallery!
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,155 posts)That would stink up the gallery
DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 30, 2018, 09:16 AM - Edit history (2)
. . .but instead, bring in as guests people like Carmen Cruz. . .or other aggrieved parties. . .to embarrass the GOP; there is that possibility that one of those guests or a spectator will scream "Bullshit!" or "LIAR!" at Trump.
If you stay home, your message stays home with you.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)I can't really fault Waters, Lewis and others for refusing to attend. It appears there will be multiple ways of showing the thing in the Whitehouse that this is not normal.