Atrocity – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:52:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Atrocity – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 The Trump White House Rhetoric seems to say: Give up on Puerto Rico https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/09/29/the-trump-white-house-rhetoric-seems-to-say-give-up-on-puerto-rico/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/09/29/the-trump-white-house-rhetoric-seems-to-say-give-up-on-puerto-rico/#comments Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:36:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24578 Continue reading The Trump White House Rhetoric seems to say: Give up on Puerto Rico →]]> The White House calls the disaster in Puerto Rico a “good news story,” implying that the federal government is doing a great job there.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump put out a tweet today that seems to imply that the US needs to consider whether or not it wants to help Puerto Rico, which, by the way, is actually part of the United States.

Here is the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, responding to some of this:

Hat tip: Media Matters for America

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