Trump Plans to Travel to Texas Once Trip 'Can Be Made Without Causing Disruption'

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite




by Josh Feldman | 9:17 am, August 27th, 2017

President Donald Trump tweeted about Hurricane Harvey response efforts this morning and said he plans to travel to Texas once it’s safe to do so.

There have been several reported deaths and more injuries as the hurricane and flooding continue in Texas, and the President said right now the “focus must be life and safety”:

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Earlier he tweeted about the work being done on the ground to save people:

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[KewlKat]

1. Yet the Con faulted President Obama for delaying visits for the same reason our liar in chief

just stated. Wonder who wrote that one for him...........

[Cryptoad]

2. Got Play-Doh??????????

[PatSeg]

16. Oh wow

I'd totally forgotten the Play-Doh! That was a priceless photo op!

[groundloop]

21. I'll NEVER forget the play-dough

First off, the Governor of Louisiana asked President Obama as well as the presidential candidates to stay away so as not to be a disruption to emergency personnel and their ongoing operations. President Obama and Hillary Clinton honored that request. 45* went barging in for a photo-op and being the publicity hungry oaf that he is managed to get photographed handing someone a case of play-dough.

I have to wonder who wrote those tweets for 45*, he certainly isn't capable of anywhere near that much empathy or coherence by himself.

[PatSeg]

37. It was really a pathetic sight

He was out there with a suit jacket on in that awful heat and only stayed long enough to get his pictures in the news. I do remember Obama staying away, so as not to interfere and Trump criticizing him for it.

I wonder if he's going to take some Play-Doh to Houston.

[dalton99a]

3. "President Obama should have gone to Louisiana days ago, instead of golfing. Too little, too late!"

Link to tweet

[Zoonart]

5. I reeeeeeeally hope someone has photos of 2Scoops

golfing today.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. He's at Camp David

(amazingly) meaning you probably won't see when he DOES go golfing (the facility has a driving range).

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Pres. Trump to the people of Texas while departing the White House to head to Camp David: "Good luck to everybody." http://abcn.ws/2vdX6Ai

[cannabis_flower]

10. Who's the little girl?

[Scarsdale]

14. Must be

Maleria's replacement. He will visit Texas once the golf courses have dried up.

[Dave Starsky]

15. It's his granddaughter.

I recognize her father's beady eyes and cold, vacant stare.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Looks like Ivanka & Jared's daughter

The below are Jr's kids -

[politicat]

36. Poor Jr's wife.

That's what, one a year? I get that she's got the best care money can buy, but I've seen what 5 in 7 years does to a body.

And she has to sleep with him. That's just lemon juice in the wound.

[kimbutgar]

22. That little girl doesn't look happy and the way he is holding her hand with fist clenched

Inside is so telling.

[BHDem53]

35. Poor kid.

Can't imagine having that for a Grandpa.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. He's boxed in on many sides

with no good choices

He will emerge either a callous, uncaring, you're-on-your-own conservative, or a big-spending Republican willing to spend whatever it takes Federal assets to help those afflicted.

There is no middle ground. Bones thrown to help will be perceived as such, federal spending is against all the cons' beliefs about small government.

There is no small money solution to this disaster. Gotcha!

[Cosmocat]

9. Remember post Katrina and they endless $$$ that got pissed away?

You will see that in a much more refined way in Texas - you have a really plugged in good old boys network, much more smooth about this stuff than Louisianna.

While 45 bumbles around on Twitter over this, make no mistake, the vultures are having a big steak dinner making plans to bilk the tax players relief dollars.

[heaven05]

19. he boxed himself in

and HE IS "a callous, uncaring, you're on your own (bigoted-racist) conservative" who will self aggrandize himself while gladly swimming in the misery of afflicted americans, no pun intended....

[BumRushDaShow]

6. He is going to have to lobby Congress to provide $$$ for what will be a multi-day storm

including the aftermath and rebuilding because the douchebags in HIS party will most likely fight it like they did with Sandy funding. But we know he won't because he'd prefer to hawk a jackass' book and enjoy some beautiful chocolate cake instead.

[Angry Dragon]

28. Cruz asked for money even before it hit ........... voted against Sandy aid

Trump said no problem

[BumRushDaShow]

29. That doesn't mean the other selfish fuckwads in Congress will go along.

[Angry Dragon]

31. True

[BumRushDaShow]

32. But the thought that just sadly came to my mind was

that Drumpf would then use this to tout "infrastructure" jobs, rebuilding that area (houses, roads, bridges) and fuck the people.

[Angry Dragon]

33. could happen

[tanyev]

8. So never, then?

I'm OK with that.

[Politicub]

11. I was watching Meet the Press this morning...

And Chuck Todd was interviewing the director of FEMA about what they're doing to help people in the affected areas. The first words out of the director's mouth? "President Trump" and then some nonsense about how much he cares. Just gross.

[Scarsdale]

18. I saw that, too.

tRump has done nothing, yet this clown is praising him. Lets hope the southern states do not do what Chris Christie did after Hurricane Sandy, and hang onto to the funds that were supposed to go to victims for the response!!

[BumRushDaShow]

30. I heard the Governor on a livestream from a local Houston station earlier this morning

and he did the same thing - effusive "praise" of the orange menace.

[Sunlei]

12. Come to Gulf Coast t(R)ump & talk about CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING.

[heaven05]

13. fuck the idiotpotus

[keithbvadu2]

17. Didn't Donald take some trinkets to some disaster relief in an earlier time?

[Scarsdale]

20. That's right.

Didn't they donate some golden eggs or something useless? Fake gold, of course just like all things tRump.

[QED]

23. He took Play-Doh - and he didn't buy it

he got it from somewhere. But yeah, that's what kids whose homes have been destroyed want: Play-Doh.

[bettyellen]

26. He regifted Play Doh- to disaster victims? What an asshole!

[Dustlawyer]

24. Stay the Fu*k away!!! We don't want you here for a photo op!

[deminks]

27. W did a flyover of Katrina aftermath at 30,000 ft.

He could do that. Hard to see the floating bodies that they don't count that way.


We Still Don’t Know How Many People Died Because Of Katrina

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-still-dont-know-how-many-people-died-because-of-katrina/

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and the New Orleans levees failed, we still don’t know how many people died in the storm and its aftermath.

The uncertainty about the death toll is evident in the variety of numbers being reported by the media. A local news station in Georgia: 1,200. AccuWeather: 1,800. Insurance Journal: more than 1,800. The New Orleans Times-Picayune: 1,833. A local news station in western Michigan: 1,836.

There is still no memorial listing the names of Katrina victims, still no way to know how many remain uncounted or unidentified, and still no agreement on how to count victims if a storm of Katrina’s impact hits the U.S. again. Ten years on, we’re still in the dark.

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[jmowreader]

34. March 2030?

[truthisfreedom]

38. Well, that'll never happen.

Everything about 45 causes disruption.

[onetexan]

39. Idiot 45 can stay in his hell hole

we don't want him here in Texas.