OPINION: Trump’s Puerto Rico potshots make his racism morally impossible to ignore
In the days before Maria's landfall on
Trump's international embarrassment of a presidency seemed to reach a new valley one weekend ago, when huge chunks of
Then he flew back to his upscale golf club in
But Trump has also made it clear, during his
So when
The narcissist-in-chief took that mayor's cry for help personally, saying it was "nasty" and politically motivated, and then he took it further to seemingly attack the entire island as people who "want everything to be done for them" -- an issue that didn't seem to matter when Trump signed legislation sending billions in aid to
On Sunday morning, the president doubled down with a new swipe, clearly aimed at the mayor and her supporters, as "ingrates." Let that sink in. This is the apotheosis of a trend, brilliantly dissected in a recent piece by the Harvard professor and
Because people are actually dying.
There are some wonderful public servants -- from
There are still devastated towns not far from
Trump's words have massive consequences, and this goes well beyond
That the president of
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