Trump wants to steal money from Puerto Rico to build his wall
In his quest to build his racist border wall, Trump is seeking to divert disaster funds from places like California and Puerto Rico.
By Lisa Needham - January 11, 2019In his quest to build his racist border wall, Trump is seeking to divert disaster funds from places like California and Puerto Rico.
By Lisa Needham - January 11, 2019Plywood, lumber, furniture, and household appliances are more expensive, thanks to Trump’s ill-advised trade war.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 18, 2018Republicans in Congress thoroughly investigated Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but they’ve done almost nothing about Hurricane Maria.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 17, 2018Trump’s shameful conspiracy-mongering about the death toll in Puerto Rico earned him a harsh rebuke from a respected journalist.
By Tommy Christopher - September 16, 2018Trump’s FEMA administrator, Brock Long, shows he’s more of a political hack than a public servant.
By Tommy Christopher - September 16, 2018Trump’s lie drew immediate condemnation, except on his propaganda network.
By Tommy Christopher - September 13, 2018Trump is refusing to acknowledge the thousands of Americans who died as he praises himself yet again.
By Kaili Joy Gray - September 13, 2018Trump claims his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was a ‘success,’ but the numbers tell a very different story.
By Caroline Orr - September 12, 2018Trump tries to gaslight Americans about his failures during Hurricane Maria.
By Eric Boehlert - September 12, 2018‘If he thinks the death of 3,000 people [is] a success God help us all.’
By Caroline Orr - September 11, 2018Trump once again downplayed the tragedy of his administration’s failure in Puerto Rico, where 2,975 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 11, 2018Hurricane Maria had a higher death toll than Hurricane Katrina — but Trump claimed his administration’s botched response to Maria was ‘fantastic.’
By Oliver Willis - August 29, 2018‘The administration killed the Puerto Ricans with neglect.’
By Tommy Christopher - August 29, 2018Nearly 5,000 Americans have died from major hurricanes under the last two Republican presidents.
By Eric Boehlert - August 28, 2018Trump wants to distract you from the real problems he has done nothing about.
By Tommy Christopher - August 13, 2018Instead of addressing reports that nearly 5,000 people died on his watch in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria, Trump was busy tweeting about TV, his campaign crowd size, and Hillary Clinton.
By Oliver Willis - May 30, 2018Trump’s callous assessment that Hurricane Maria wasn’t ‘a real catastrophe like Katrina’ was wrong then, and has proven to be even more wrong now.
By Tommy Christopher - May 29, 2018Backlash forced Florida Republican congressional candidate John Ward to backpedal his comment that Puerto Rican hurricane survivors shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
By Matthew Chapman - May 22, 2018Mick Mulvaney insisted that Puerto Rico was doing great seven months after Hurricane Maria. But the actual news begged to differ.
By Tommy Christopher - April 18, 2018Puerto Rico was supposed to receive 30 million emergency meals. But only 50,000 were delivered.
By Eric Boehlert - February 06, 2018“This is still our House. Its the peoples House.”
By Matthew Chapman - January 31, 2018Chef Jose Andres was a hero for Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. But he was also a critic of Donald Trump and to this family, that’s all that matters.
By Tommy Christopher - January 28, 2018The situation in Puerto Rico is as dire as ever. Months after the hurricane struck, hundreds of thousands of Americans on the island are still without power. And it is high time to point the finger at Donald Trump for his failure. As Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York points out, in the wake […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 08, 2018Donald Trump appears unconcerned about the fate of Puerto Rico to a truly shocking degree. As the island has struggled to rebuild, Trump refused to let foreign vessels unload relief supplies at port, and withdrew a naval hospital ship treating the sick and injured without giving a reason. He personally attacked the mayor of San […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 04, 2018Donald Trump’s toxic and reckless attacks on the free press — as well as on the 3 million Americans in Puerto Rico trying to survive in the aftermath of the devastating hurricane — is seeping into the rest of his Republican Party. Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry appeared on CNN Thursday morning to echo Trump’s baseless […]
By Oliver Willis - October 12, 2017