Donald Trump craps himself over controversial story about John Kelly, but stays silent about Puerto Rico crisis

| 7:04 pm EDT September 25, 2017
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Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, is drowning in the aftermath of a major hurricane. The Puerto Rican people, who are U.S. citizens, are in desperate need of help from their president. So what is Donald Trump doing about it? He’s urgently speaking up about a matter that is more important to him: a controversial CNN story about his Chief of Staff, John Kelly.

After CNN reported that Kelly had opposed Donald Trump’s decision to attack black NFL football players over their protests, Trump promptly melted down. He tweeted “CNN is #FakeNews. Just reported COS (John Kelly) was opposed to my stance on NFL players disrespecting FLAG, ANTHEM, COUNTRY. Total lie!” But that wasn’t enough, so he kept going: “General John Kelly totally agrees w/ my stance on NFL players and the fact that they should not be disrespecting our FLAG or GREAT COUNTRY!” Then he started flat out lying.

Even though NFL television ratings were up this weekend, Trump tweeted that there was “Tremendous backlash against the NFL and its players for disrespect of our Country.” He failed to prove any evidence of this supposed tremendous backlash. Even Trump’s closest allies in the NFL, New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft, quarterback Tom Brady, and former head coach Rex Ryan, all publicly criticized him for having attacked black football players.

Meanwhile, the situation in Puerto Rico continues to grow worse. Every single person on the island is without electricity. There’s a dam that’s in the process of breaking, worsening the flooding. The people there are begging for federal help, and many Americans in the mainland United States are demanding that help be sent. Hillary Clinton has called for the U.S. Navy to be dispatched to help in Puerto Rico. Mitt Romney has called for additional help. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is tweeting toxic garbage. Update: just minutes after Hillary Clinton scolded Trump for not having mentioned Puerto Rico, he not-so-coincidentally finally tweeted about it.

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