Posted on 10/01/2017 12:31:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
Over the weekend, instead of reporting on the Puerto Rico relief efforts and how they were crippled by circumstance, the liberal media chose to champion the anti-Trump criticism from Democratic San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz. After President Trump pushed back against the criticism, the media sensed blood in the water and went all in. On Sunday’s Good Morning America, ABC Correspondent David Wright touted public outrage at the President, including one actor claiming Trump was going to Hell.
Part way through his report highlighting anti-Trump criticism over his Puerto Rico response, Wright raised up the scathing tweet written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, best known for his work on the Broadway musical Hamilton. “And playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted: ‘She has been working 24/7. You have been golfing. You're going straight to Hell. Fastest golf cart you ever took,’” Wright read with excitement. He failed to clarify that Trump had been D.C. coordinating with Puerto Rico’s governor.
Miranda had been a vocal opponent of the President for some time. On one occasion, during a Hamilton performance, he took the time to harangue Vice President Mike Pence because he was in the audience. So the irony went right over Wright’s head when he dismissed Trump’s accusation that Mayor Cruz’s criticism was political:
Trump suggested her criticism of the administration's response is politically motivated, tweeting: “The mayor of San Juan who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.”
ABC Touts Actor Saying Trump Is ‘Going to Hell’ in Golf Cart
And it was no surprise whose corner Wright would place himself in for the report. During his lead into the segment, he asserted Trump was the one who started the argument. “The President's getting ready to head down to Puerto Rico this week. But, the fight he picked with one local official after she dared to criticize the administration's response ensures that the trip could be politically fraught,” he bemoaned.
In a series of tweets, President Trump told the people of Puerto Rico that the federal government was doing everything in its power to help them and urged them not to believe the “fake news.” Wright mocked Trump, explaining that “Of course, the reality of the situation is that most of the people in Puerto Rico will not be watching the news because they don't have power.”
Wright wrapped up his report by once again praising Miranda’s tweet: “Well, the President is taking a drubbing online for what people are saying is attacking storm victims, including that strongly worded tweet from Lin-Manuel Miranda.”
Transcript below:
ABC
Good Morning America
October 1, 2017
8:10:40 AM
DAVID WRIGHT: Good morning, Dan and Paula. The President's getting ready to head down to Puerto Rico this week. But, the fight he picked with one local official after she dared to criticize the administration's response ensures that the trip could be politically fraught.
[Cuts to video]
From the comfort of his golf club here in Bedminster, another tweetstorm. The President lashed out at San Juan's mayor. “Such poor leadership ability by the mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help,” he tweeted. “They want everything to be done for them. When it should be a community effort. 10,000 federal workers now on the island doing a fantastic job.”
CARMEN YULIN CRUZ: This is a time when everyone shows their true colors. I have no time for distractions.
WRIGHT: The mayor spent part of her Saturday wading the streets. Using a bull horn to reach stranded residents.
CRUZ: I hope he gets a chance to really look at people. Look at people's faces. See them drinking from a creek.
WRIGHT: Trump suggested her criticism of the administration's response is politically motivated, tweeting: “The mayor of San Juan who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.” And playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted: “She has been working 24/7. You have been golfing. You're going straight to hell. Fastest golf cart you ever took.”
BROCK LONG: Right now, we have disasters in 20 different states that we're working. Don't forget about Harvey. Don't forget about Irma. And all the work that's been done. Get rid of the noise. Focus on the progress that we've been -- that has been made.
WRIGHT: Late in the day, after a round of phone calls, the President softened his tone. Insisting the administration is “working to people of Puerto Rico in every way.” Adding: “To the people of Puerto Rico: Do not believe the fake news.”
[Cuts back to live]
Of course, the reality of the situation is that most of the people in Puerto Rico will not be watching the news because they don't have power. Well, the President is taking a drubbing online for what people are saying is attacking storm victims, including that strongly worded tweet from Lin-Manuel Miranda. Dan and Paula?
PAULA FARIS: Yeah, certainly a lot of criticism direct odd toward the President this morning. Thank you, David, for your reporting.
More comfy than a handbasket for sure
They’re really trying to Katrina this but it won’t work because the only reason it worked the first time is because milquetoast W refused to fight back.
We’ve also had 8 years of media refusing to hold the Obama administration accountable for anything including egregious abuses.
The story doesn’t hold water. (Oh and Hamilton sux btw)
he was praising Pres. Trump on 9/26/2017. Now the Pres. is chopped liver ?
“They’re really trying to Katrina this but it won’t work”
They sure are. They have this goofy mayor and the local teamster union hampering the relief efforts in order to try and make Donald Trump look bad.
He’s an “actor”
Now he he is acting like an idiot.
Are you sure he’s acting?
What’s happening is liberals and the MSMLSD are starting a new Civil War.
Don’t you even try to put it out there that president Trump has anything to do with Puerto Rico’s ills. They were hanging on by a thread already. Don’t even try it. Hell no.
Naaaaah...golf carts are like those new (liberal backed) electric cars...the batteries won’t last near long enough to make it all the way to hell.
About halfway, he’d be blocked by all the Obama golf carts that already stalled there...waiting for a recharge.
Puerto Rico is being offered the help, it’s their own, corrupt, government, and unions, that are clogging the works.
I say just leave all the containers, supplies, and tools, on the docks, and bring everyone back home.
Sooner or later, they’ll have to fish, or cut bait.
Let them know there’s not an avenue for them to use this crisis for political gain, or a PR bailout. It’s a humanitarian issue.
I think it is a playbook designed for Hillary.
They have nothing. It’s more of a child acting out.
What they are showing is how life will look under the Democrat regime.
It is a continuance of the fundamental transformation of America as promised by Obama.
They lost. Expect all of this to continue as it is a script they are following.
Things is also they do not know what a small bubble they’re living in. They think they’re the voice of America but they’re just little children crying lost in the woods.
Very true statement.
I do not know what education these folks have but attacking me isn’t going to do them any justice.
I can refuse admittance to my life in a heartbeat.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz has been too busy getting her caps and t-shirts printed with: We need help, we’re dying, SOS, etc. & going on every tv station that puts a camera & mic in her face to complain. And btw, the death count is STILL at 16 from immediately after the hurricane - so she’s a liar.
She hasn’t even gone down to the Joint Field Office yet which is located in her city, San Juan! All of the other mayors in Puerto Rico have gone to meetings there and are involved in strategizing and getting supplies pushed out to the areas where needed in their respective towns and rural areas. Miranda hasn’t been involved AT ALL but is hyper critical of the aide efforts while not lifting her limp finger to pitch in! She’s nothing but a pathetic political hack.
Actor, actor, what the heck is an actor? Oh, right, someone who “pretends for a living.” So everything about their life is they pretend.
Partisan Media Shills (PMS).
That ‘goofy mayor’ is close personal friends with cankles! That right there should tell you all you need to know...
ABC and ESPN are Disney properties.
Disney is not your friend.
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