On the day Trump was on the island — as he toured a relatively wealthy suburb of Guaynabo and an English-speaking church where he tossed paper towels into the crowd — at least 121 people died. That’s 40 more deaths on that day than what was normal for 2016, when 81 people per day died on average.
“Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering,” Trump said at a press conference Oct. 3 with Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.
“What is your death count?” Trump asked Rosselló.
“Sixteen, certified,” Rosselló replied.
“Sixteen people certified. Sixteen people versus in the thousands,” Trump said, comparing it to Katrina. Continue Reading>>
