Greets and saluts from the Deep State Resistance in the NYC metro area. I hope everyone has gotten their resistance checks, and W2s, because we want to make sure that everyone’s properly compensated for their role in thwarting Trump’s corrupt cabal of cronies from running roughshod over the Constitution.

But I digress. There are still national emergencies that need attending to, and Trump’s over in Davos getting ignored by the world leaders because he’s a reactionary ignoramus who doesn’t understand how economics works or how globalization helps the US far more than it hurts. Trump’s reactionary and isolationist policies are doing tremendous damage to US economic and strategic interests over the long term.

Of course, Trump’s depraved indifference to the plight of Americans is on my mind as well.

Trump’s response is a perfect exhibit on what not to do.

Of course his bigot base thinks this is all fine. It’s only Puerto Rico after all.

They are American citizens.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 25, 2018

Hurricane Maria hit four months ago. 18% of Puerto Rico still lacks power.

Trump thinks this is okay and doesn’t care there’s such a slow response to rebuilding the grid and getting services back up and running. It’s been up to states like NY to send needed resources to help get the grid up and running. Trump, who is commander in chief of the most powerful military, has ignored the plight and delayed sending resources to Puerto Rico (and the US Virgin Islands) leading to more misery and harm to American citizens.

This is basic stuff. Trump’s response to the hurricanes is the new nadir in how any elected official should respond to a natural disaster. It’s worse than Bush in the aftermath of Katrina (and many of Trump’s idiot supporters think Obama is to blame for something that happened years before Obama took office).

We are supposed to learn from our mistakes, but Trump doesn’t learn. That much has been clear throughout his spectacularly awful history.