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| Trump talks people coming to see him, not the dead and devastated, (Heather Timmons). |
Clueless under fire
How bad is Donald Trump going to screw up the federal response to Hurricane Harvey, a historic natural disaster still inflicting, (New York Times)?
To noone's surprise Trump landed in Corpus Christi, Texas this morning, ostensibly to meet with "officials from local, state and federal agencies in a Corpus Christi firehouse," (New York Times).
As flood waters rise, threatening more devastation, upon leaving the meeting Trump had other concerns on his mind.
Glenn Thrushaug reports: Trump first exited the Corpus Christi firehouse and then he ...
noticed a crowd of about 1,000 people, some of them cheering. He grabbed a lone star Texas flag and shouted back to the crowd, seeming to forget, for the moment, that he was at the scene of a disaster and not one of his rallies. 'What a crowd!' he said. 'What a turnout!' (New York Times).
Rah, Rah. Meanwhile, Max de Haldevang of QZ reports:
Normally, language in pool reports is brisk, factual, and dispassionate. For this one the pool reporter happened to be from a Texas paper, the Dallas Morning News, and what he heard was apparently enough to prompt a remarkable breach with pool protocol.
After the briefing, Trump did an impromptu rally type speech in front of a few hundred Trump supporters who somehow managed to know exactly where the president was doing the briefing.
He stood on a raised platform of some type. Couldn’t tell if it was a step ladder or not. But he was not on a truck. Spoke into a microphone.
'I love you, you are special, we’re here to take care of you. It’s going well.'
'What a crowd, what a turnout.'
Reporters heard no mention of the dead, dying or displaced Texans and no expression of sympathy for them. The message was services are coming and Texans will be OK.
Trump is a child.
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