Donald Trump finally tweets about Puerto Rico a few minutes after Hillary Clinton scolds him about it
Hillary Clinton appeared on the Chris Hayes show on MSNBC on Monday night and gave a lengthy interview about a wide variety of topics. Many of you are already aware of this because you were watching it. Now we know that someone else was also watching: Donald Trump. We know this because after she called him out for not having addressed something, he hurried up and tweeted about that exact same issue.
At one point during the interview, Clinton criticized Trump for not having even so much as mentioned the post-hurricane crisis in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, even as he instead spent his time picking fights with famous black athletes. The crisis in Puerto Rico has been going on for days. Yet twenty minutes or so after Clinton called him out during the interview, Trump was suddenly tweeting about Puerto Rico.
Trump’s three part tweet read “Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble, It’s old electrical grid, which was in terrible shape, was devastated. Much of the Island was destroyed, with billions of dollars owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with. Food, water and medical are top priorities – and doing well.” He has yet to go back and delete the tweet that mistakenly says “it’s” instead of “its” – and he randomly dragged Wall Street into it. Both of these clues give away that he wrote these tweets himself.
We know that Donald Trump regularly watches Fox News because he brags about how great it is, and we know that he sometimes watches CNN because he complains about it. But Trump doesn’t watch MSNBC, at least not in the evenings. This means that he made a point of tuning in specifically because he knew Hillary Clinton would be appearing. Sure enough – as she had long tried to warn us – he’s so manipulable, she was able to bait him into a tweet without even trying.
