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Donald Trump Suggested The United States Sell Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria Struck, Report Claims

Donald Trump Suggested The United States Sell Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria Struck, Report Claims

Donald Trump suggested that the United States sell the island of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, the president’s former secretary of Homeland Security claimed in a new interview. Trump was widely criticized for his response to the hurricane, which many saw as inadequate and insensitive to the devastation across the island. A […]

4y ago

Fury Erupts In Puerto Rico As Locals Find Unused Emergency Supplies From Hurricane Maria

Fury Erupts In Puerto Rico As Locals Find Unused Emergency Supplies From Hurricane Maria

Fury is growing in Puerto Rico after locals found a warehouse that was filled with emergency items originally sent to the island back in 2017 in response to Hurricane Maria. Despite the widespread devastation of the 2017 event, the items remained completely unused and undistributed, sparking mass outrage, via NBC News. The warehouse — located […]

4y ago

CVS Employee In Indiana Refused To Accept A Puerto Rican Man’s ID, Company Apologizes

CVS Employee In Indiana Refused To Accept A Puerto Rican Man’s ID, Company Apologizes

A Puerto Rican man says that the clerk and manager of an Indiana CVS store refused to accept his Puerto Rico ID card when he tried to buy cold medicine, The Hill reports. The company has since issued an apology. Jose Guzman Payano is from the Caribbean island but is currently in Indiana while he […]

5y ago

Donald Trump Says He’s The ‘Best Thing’ To Ever Happen To Puerto Rico As Tropical Storm Dorian Nears

Donald Trump Says He’s The ‘Best Thing’ To Ever Happen To Puerto Rico As Tropical Storm Dorian Nears

As a tropical storm heads toward the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump lashed out against the island and its government, claiming that he was the best thing to ever happen to it in a series of tweets sent Wednesday. “Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth,” the president […]

5y ago

Donald Trump May Think Puerto Rico Gets Hit By Hurricanes On Purpose To Give Him ‘Headache,’ Says CNN Reporter

Donald Trump May Think Puerto Rico Gets Hit By Hurricanes On Purpose To Give Him ‘Headache,’ Says CNN Reporter

Donald Trump on Tuesday tweeted what appeared to be a complaint that the latest potential hurricane now bearing down on Puerto Rico would end up costing too much money above what the federal government has already spent to help rebuild the United States territory after Hurricane Maria’s devastation in 2017, followed by further damage caused […]

5y ago

Donald Trump Joked About Trading Puerto Rico For Greenland, Says ‘New York Times’ Report

Donald Trump Joked About Trading Puerto Rico For Greenland, Says ‘New York Times’ Report

After Donald Trump expressed interest in purchasing the autonomous Danish region of Greenland, and the suggestion was shot down by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, The Inquisitr reported that he canceled his planned trip to Denmark. Although some thought Trump’s proposal was a joke, Newsweek reports that he has been talking about the possibility for […]

5y ago

Florida Veteran Told By Her Homeowners Association That She Can’t Fly Her Puerto Rico Flag

Florida Veteran Told By Her Homeowners Association That She Can’t Fly Her Puerto Rico Flag

A Florida Army veteran was told by her Homeowners Association (HOA) that she can’t fly her Puerto Rican flag —only an American flag or a military flag, Orlando’s WFTF-TV reports. She hired an attorney. Frances Santiago said that when islanders in Puerto Rico began taking to the streets last month to demand the resignation of […]

5y ago

90,000 People Protest In Puerto Rico To Oust Their ‘Corrupt’ Governor

90,000 People Protest In Puerto Rico To Oust Their ‘Corrupt’ Governor

Protests are taking over the small island of Puerto Rico, reports The New York Times. With a population of just over 3 million, over 90,000 have marched to show their dismay with the current government — which comes to around 3 percent of the population. One of the catalysts for the march was a number […]

5y ago

Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora Will Boycott Team Visit To Donald Trump White House Over Puerto Rico Disaster

Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora Will Boycott Team Visit To Donald Trump White House Over Puerto Rico Disaster

The 2018 World Series champion Boston Red Sox are scheduled to visit the White House on Thursday, May 9, on an off-day following the conclusion of their three game series against the Baltimore Orioles. But after months of speculation as to whether the team’s manager Alex Cora, a 43-year-old native of Caguas, Puerto Rico, would […]

5y ago

Lin-Manuel Miranda Blasts Trump On Puerto Rico Recovery: ‘Our President Lies To Himself And Lies To You’

Lin-Manuel Miranda Blasts Trump On Puerto Rico Recovery: ‘Our President Lies To Himself And Lies To You’

Lin-Manuel Miranda isn’t taking too kindly to President Donald Trump’s statements about Puerto Rico’s hurricane recovery. The actor and playwright took to Twitter to attack Trump’s claim that America had spent $91 billion on recovery from Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island more than a year ago and has still left thousands without essentials. Trump […]

5y ago

White House Facing Backlash After Calling Puerto Rico ‘That Country’

White House Facing Backlash After Calling Puerto Rico ‘That Country’

White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley called Puerto Rico “that country” and referred to the people living there as “their people” while speaking with a reporter on Monday, and he is facing intense backlash for what many say is wording that exposes the administration’s attitude towards the U.S. territory. According to The Washington Post, Gidley later […]

5y ago

Trump Blames ‘Grossly Incompetent’ Politicians For Misusing Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Funds

Trump Blames ‘Grossly Incompetent’ Politicians For Misusing Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Funds

In a series of tweets spanning the late night hours of Monday and into Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump ripped the government of Puerto Rico, calling the island’s leaders “grossly incompetent” and accusing them of corruption that has diverted hurricane recovery funds from the people who need it. According to a report in Politico, the […]

5y ago

Senate Republicans Accuse Democrats Of Playing Politics With Midwest Disaster Relief Funds

Senate Republicans Accuse Democrats Of Playing Politics With Midwest Disaster Relief Funds

Senate Republicans criticized Democrats on Monday for blocking a disaster relief bill that proposed $13.5 billion in funding for Midwestern regions that were recently affected by natural disasters. According to Fox News, Democrats blocked the bill — which fell short of a majority in a 44-49 vote — because it didn’t provide enough aid to […]

5y ago

CNN: Trump Joked About Using ‘The Nuclear Football’ On North Korea During Puerto Rico Visit

CNN: Trump Joked About Using ‘The Nuclear Football’ On North Korea During Puerto Rico Visit

According to a report by CNN, during a 2017 visit to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump joked about using the “nuclear football” – the briefcase that is always carried close by the president that can be used to launch a nuclear attack – on North Korea. People familiar with the president’s visit to the […]

5y ago

Puerto Rico Governor Threatens Trump: ‘If The Bully Gets Close, I’ll Punch The Bully In The Mouth’

Puerto Rico Governor Threatens Trump: ‘If The Bully Gets Close, I’ll Punch The Bully In The Mouth’

Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Roselló took a frustrated tone with President Donald Trump over the slow relief efforts for Hurricane Maria. In an interview with CNN, Roselló explained that he refused to let the White House (and Trump in particular) bully officials and slow the relief efforts on the island. “If the bully gets […]

5y ago

Puerto Rico Endures ‘Alarming’ Food Stamp Cuts Amid Hurricane Maria Aftermath

Puerto Rico Endures ‘Alarming’ Food Stamp Cuts Amid Hurricane Maria Aftermath

Over 1 million residents in Puerto Rico were hit with significant – and shocking – food stamp benefit cuts as their economy continues to deal with the aftermath of Hurricanes Maria and Irma. Puerto Rican authorities told BuzzFeed News there are 1.35 million people who receive benefits through the Nutritional Assistance for Puerto Rico (NAP) […]

5y ago

Trump Did Not Want ‘A Single Dollar’ Spent On Puerto Rico Disaster Aid, ‘WaPo’ Reports, Was ‘Not Consolable’

Trump Did Not Want ‘A Single Dollar’ Spent On Puerto Rico Disaster Aid, ‘WaPo’ Reports, Was ‘Not Consolable’

In September of 2018, a year after Hurricane Maria struck the United States territory of Puerto Rico — leaving the island devastated — a full recovery was still a distant hope, according to a report by USA Today. President Donald Trump, who had been widely criticized for his handling of disaster relief for Puerto Rico, […]

5y ago

President Trump Accuses Democrats Of ‘Celebrating The Shutdown’ In Puerto Rico

President Trump Accuses Democrats Of ‘Celebrating The Shutdown’ In Puerto Rico

Democratic leaders visited Puerto Rico over the weekend, in order to better understand the challenges that the territory is experiencing after two storms — and a debt crisis — continue to wreak havoc on the island. But President Donald Trump had a different take on the trip, writing a Twitter post saying that Democrats were […]

5y ago

‘Hamilton’ Premiere In Puerto Rico Moves Lin-Manuel Miranda To Tears

‘Hamilton’ Premiere In Puerto Rico Moves Lin-Manuel Miranda To Tears

Every maestro is asked about his favorite audience or the best place to perform their work, and as it turns out, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has his answer – Puerto Rico. Miranda opened Hamilton last night on the island, once again playing Alexander Hamilton. Page Six says that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s island homecoming of sorts brought […]

5y ago

Trump Might Take Away Aid To Puerto Rico To Pay For His Border Wall

Trump Might Take Away Aid To Puerto Rico To Pay For His Border Wall

En route to Texas to assess a situation he has described as a humanitarian and national crisis, President Trump was briefed by members of his administration on a plan that would allow him to reallocate billions of dollars of disaster aid money from other places across the nation in order to build a wall between […]

5y ago

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