Bankrupt Puerto Rico and the dems don’t need two more senators.
President Trump criticized Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Monday as a “horror show” and as part of the reason he would be an “absolute no” on supporting statehood for Puerto Rico.
“With the mayor of San Juan as incompetent as she is and as bad as she is, Puerto Rico shouldn’t be talking about statehood until they get some people that really know what they’re doing,” Mr. Trump said in a radio interview with Geraldo Rivera.
He continued to blast Ms. Cruz as a “horror show” who was “so disrespectful” to military and Federal Emergency Management Agency responders in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. He accused her and the local leadership of botching FEMA deliveries. Mr. Trump also faulted the electrical grid for the trouble recovering from the storm.
CBS News reported that millions of water bottles were left on a tarmac in Puerto Rico, and the executive director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration Carlos Mercader said it was FEMA’s responsibility to distribute them.
Puerto Rico’s Gov. Ricardo Rossello pushed back against the president’s comments Monday and the “unequal and colonial relationship” between the island and the mainland.
“The President said he is not in favor of statehood for the people of Puerto Rico based on a personal feud with a local mayor,” Mr. Rossello said in a statement. “This is an insensitive, disrespectful comment to over 3 million Americans who live in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.”