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Trump’s Puerto Rico event was way worse than his tweets

cnn.com

This is Trump off the telemprompter. Twitter Trump. Trump’s real personality — when words are not being carefully selected for him.
Trump knew — because everyone wrote about it and TV talked about it relentlessly — that the big question today in Puerto Rico was whether he could show some actual empathy, some human kindness to people he didn’t know but who were still his constituents.
And, even knowing that, Trump delivered a navel-gazing, self-championing, victimhood-seeking speech that reeked of tone-deafness and out-of-touch-ism.
Even for this President, who has redefined presidential — and not for the better — this is a truly remarkable low.
But he wasn’t done.