Donald Trump is now blaming his incompetence on bad cellphone reception

| 5:42 pm EDT September 14, 2017
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It wasn’t enough for Donald Trump to serve up a tone-deaf and egocentric response to the pair of major hurricanes that slammed the United States. In between them, he failed to accept an offer of disaster relief aid from the government of Mexico. Then, after Mexico was hit with a major earthquake, he failed to make any mention of it. Now that Mexico has withdrawn its aid offer, Trump is making his lamest excuse yet for having botched the entire thing.

Six days ago, Mexico was hit by the 8.4 earthquake. Donald Trump made no public mention of the tragedy, and as it turns out, he did nothing about it privately, either. Two days ago the Los Angeles Times reported that Mexico had withdrawn its aid offer to the U.S., partly because Trump had failed to even so much as offer condolences after the earthquake (link). Now Trump is finally serving up an excuse – and it’s along the lines of “my dog ate my homework.”

On Thursday evening, nearly a week after the earthquake hit Mexico, Trump tweeted this: “Spoke to President of Mexico to give condolences on terrible earthquake. Unable to reach for 3 days b/c of his cell phone reception at site.” There are so many things wrong here, it’s difficult to know where to start. The earthquake happened six days ago, not three days. And even if Trump couldn’t have simply used a landline to reach the President of Mexico, he could simply have tweeted his condolences so that the people of Mexico would see it.

Instead, thanks to a total lack of public or private action in the wake of the Mexican earthquake, Donald Trump unwittingly proved that he simply had no interest in addressing it at all. This also proves that Trump is, as per usual, simply lying.