After Trump Attacks Her Leadership, San Juan Mayor: The Goal Is ‘Saving Lives’

Agosto 29, 2017 --- San Juan P.R. --- Empieza la entrega de vales de ayudas federales de vivienda en el municipio de San Juan. en la foto Carmen Yulin Cruz. Xavier Araujo / GFR Media xavier.araujo@gfrmedia.com (G... Agosto 29, 2017 --- San Juan P.R. --- Empieza la entrega de vales de ayudas federales de vivienda en el municipio de San Juan. en la foto Carmen Yulin Cruz. Xavier Araujo / GFR Media xavier.araujo@gfrmedia.com (GDA via AP Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump started off the weekend by calling out the leaders of the Puerto Rican government for having “poor leadership” skills in their efforts to recover from the widespread devastation the islands suffered after Hurricane Irma and Maria.

But San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who Trump directly attacked in his tweet, is taking the high road after a few days of back and forth public critiques between herself and the federal government.

Cruz tweeted Saturday morning that the only goal is to save lives and said Puerto Rico “cannot be distracted by anything else.”

Trump’s remarks Saturday morning were likely in response to Cruz expressing frustration with the administration’s characterization of relief efforts in the U.S. territory.

On Thursday, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said the federal government’s recovery efforts in Puerto Rico were a “good news story,” a comment Cruz strongly combatted during an interview with CNN Friday.

Well, maybe from where she’s standing it’s a good news story,” Cruz said. “When you are drinking from a creek, it’s not a good news story. When you don’t have food for a baby, it’s not a good news story. When you have to pull people down from their buildings — I’m sorry, but that really upsets me and frustrates me.”

Trump tweeted Saturday morning blaming her and others and saying the hurricane recovery should be a “community effort.”

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  1. Trump started off the weekend by calling out the leaders of the Puerto Rican government for having “poor leadership” skills

    Absolutely stunning lack of self-awareness. Of course, it goes hand in hand with his own lack of anything even resembling leadership skills. Or humanity.

  2. Donald Milhous Trump – He left Americans to die.

  3. So:

    She loved him, of course, and was probably even sexually attracted to him.

    But she’s manipulated by his enemies to hate him. She’s doesn’t have any mind of her own.

    She has poor leadership skills, and is basically like a welfare queen like all “those people”–just wanting a handout, instead of pulling herself up by her own bootstraps.

    Got it, Malignant Narcissist.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    She’s smart enough to know the baby-man’s fragile ego needs to be stroked to bring her constituents the help they so desperately need.

    It’s mind-boggling how far we’ve fallen.

  5. It’s good to know that finally we have all learned that anything - ANYTHING at all even the loss of life through illness or catastrophe (just to name the most extreme) - is justified in the name of tax cuts. God almighty, please Democrats - any Democrat! - get out and say this ad nauseum every single day.

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