Rick Wilson: How Badly Could Trump Fuck Up the Response to Hurricane Dorian?

[Miles Archer]

How Badly Could Trump Fuck Up the Response to Hurricane Dorian?

Rick Wilson
Updated 09.01.19 2:20PM ET / Published 08.31.19 5:13AM ET

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-badly-will-trump-fuck-up-the-response-to-hurricane-dorian

Trump’s one brush to date with an actual natural disaster—other than that goddamn confection of Aquanet, 1970s shag carpet remnants, and lemur fur glued to his skull—was the complete fuckup of his response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria when they struck Puerto Rico in September 2017.

Of course he failed as a president and as a leader. Anyone who expected different results wasn’t paying attention; it was and remains an epic clusterfuck. Because he’s an accidental president, an inherent racist, an ignoramus as to American history, and a natural-born fuckup, Trump and his shambolic clown-show administration botched it from start to finish, and they didn’t even really seem to care.

Why bother? In Trump’s mind, Puerto Ricans aren’t Americans, so why not let the Sea Mexicans get by with hate tweets, paper towel-tossing, and endless bitching about the needs of a U.S. territory that took a direct hit from two storms of historic proportions.

Trump’s inability to let go of his petty little bitch grievances with Puerto Rican local leaders in an American territory where American citizens died and where those same American citizens are still recovering—slowly—from those two hurricanes was revived this week when it looked like Dorian might strike the American island:

A lot of bad things are happening in Puerto Rico. The Governor is under siege, the Mayor of San Juan is a despicable and incompetent person who I wouldn’t trust under any circumstance, and the United States Congress foolishly gave 92 Billion Dollars for hurricane relief, much....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2019

[Iliyah]

1. It's already happening . . .

plus, WH keeps diverting FEMA monies to ICE.

[Miles Archer]

2. He mentions that later in the article...

...which I didn't include due to the 4-paragraph rule, but it's in there.

[Botany]

3. " How Badly Could Trump Fuck Up the Response to Hurricane Dorian?"

He could say that it was gonna hit Alabama.

[Miles Archer]

5. Oh, come on now, I know he's an idiot, but he wouldn't....OH. Wait. He DID.

[PJMcK]

4. Thanks for the link!

I think the column was behind their paywall and I appreciate your post.

[dflprincess]

6. He could probably make it appear that

"Brownie" actually did do a "heck-of-a job" during Katrina.

[kwijybo]

7. Never ask the question "how can the idiot make things worse"

The idiots take that as a challenge

[Xipe Totec]

8. Metaphors fail me. nt

[House of Roberts]

15. Trump could fuck up an anvil?

Usually covers a wide range of Republicans.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

9. Ask Puerto Rico

[gordianot]

10. He could have actually nuked a Hurricane.

Take it from there less of a disaster.

[tclambert]

11. "President Trump saved Alabama from a hurricane!"

- Kellyanne Conway sometime next week.

[tblue37]

13. As long as it doesn't hit Bowling Green. That could be a massacre! nt

[Girard442]

12. We tend to believe that when things get bad enough, people will try do the right thing.

Not Trump. With him, when it comes to decency and empathy, there's no there there.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. Trump does not have the mental capacity to deal with any massive emergency....

such as hurricanes or wars. I suspect he could even screw up a McDonald's order.

The worst he could do is to do nothing but I expect a disorganized mess. But he will turn it into a Trump shitshow all about him. I'm sure Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh will be able to explain it away and blame Democrats for any failures.

Aside from all that, I hope the Red Cross and all our coastal emergency services are well prepared.

This one will be a long, nasty slog with the need for billions in relief money and thousands of relief workers. Medical teams and electrical/structural repair crews will be stretched very thin.

KY....

[Norbert]

16. The Dorian response can wait. It's more important to badmouth Debra Messing.

[Cha]

19. Fred Guttenberg and Andy Ostroy blast him..

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[mucifer]

17. Lets not forget Katrina and the horrors bush enabled

[Vinca]

18. Florida has one thing going for it - you don't need a boat to get there.

If the response is the normal clusterfuck, at least citizens of other states can get there to help them if they need it. I expect, given it's a state with Trump properties, they'll be overwhelmed with government assistance. Especially near Palm Beach and the Doral golf course. Rick Wilson has come up with the perfect term for how Trump treated the people of Puerto Rico. "Sea Mexicans." Thousands died and all they got was paper towels.

[Mc Mike]

20. Petty little bitch -- that about sums him up.

His team will forget to bring the paper towels, this time. Malaria will forget to wear her nifty designer jacket.

[LisaL]

21. We are going to find out soon enough.

[Martin Eden]

22. Ten years from now ...

... rightwing nutjobs will blame the disastrous response to Hurricane Dorian on President Warren (or Biden, or Harris, etc.).

After all, what was President Obama doing when our nation was attacked on 9/11/01??

[manhattan123]

23. hehe

"...goddamn confection of Aquanet, 1970s shag carpet remnants, and lemur fur glued to his skull"