Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.

The Tangerine toddler was busy this morning on Twitter and it was the usual fact-free bullshit and depraved indifference to the plight of millions of Americans still in the dark without power across Puerto Rico and the USVI.

Trump’s now complaining that the US shouldn’t keep FEMA in those places indefinitely.

He’s right. They should stay until their job is done.

It’s no where near done.

Puerto Rico has 84% of the island still without power. FEMA was aiming to get to 25% in a month, and it looks like they’re not going to make that. FEMA is shuffling officials around, because it’s a complete shitshow and Trump still hasn’t sent sufficient capabilities to the island to get power and basic services restored.

That’s entirely unconscionable, and we should remember when Bush got slammed for his failings with FEMA during and after Katrina. This is significantly worse, because Trump’s doing absolutely nothing different even after the shortcomings were identified.

Gen. Honore took on the lead role in rebuilding efforts and getting the relief efforts back on track.

Trump’s perpetually stuck on fucking moron.

He still thinks he’s doing a great job, even though there’s substantively no change in the power being restored on Puerto Rico. He’s too busy blaming the victims of the disaster for the slow pace of recovery.

When there’s absolutely no infrastructure left because everything was wiped out by a storm that everyone knew was going to do massive damage days in advance, Trump blames the victim.

A true leader would have made sure that resources were mobilized to address critical needs without any delay so that within hours of the storm clearing, help would arrive. They’d be in process of opening the ports and airports so that critical needs get in - generators to power hospitals and critical infrastructure and water and telcom functional.

After natural disasters stateside, we know that telcoms can bring in mobile hotspots/phone sites, so that they can get services up and running. Where’s that effort? Where is a major deployment of the Seabees or Army Corps of Engineers, who have capabilities to do the kind of work needed to clear roads, quickly set up infrastructure, including temporary facilities, etc. Snopes identifies that some units are there, but not particular numbers.

All that takes Trump to issue the orders. He’s too busy thinking about his next round of golf.

It’s particularly telling that the response is godawful when you do a search for Seabees or Army Corps and Puerto Rico, and there’s news from 2 weeks ago, and nothing since.

That is highly suggestive that those units aren’t there in sufficient numbers, because we’d know progress and reports.