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Trump Throws Paper Towels in Puerto Rico

from Mandalay Ray · #65

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4 min

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Tim and Ray watch and react to footage of Trump tossing paper towels to Puerto Rico hurricane victims like a carnival prize and complaining on camera about the disaster relief "throwing our budget out of whack," contrasting it with his North Korea saber-rattling tweet to Rex Tillerson.

In this bit11 moments
  • 28:37Trump claims Puerto Rico 'screwed our budget up' while disaster victims listen.
  • 28:48Tim on why constant fear from the news is rational, not a false flag conspiracy.
  • 29:06Trump tells Secretary of State via Twitter to stop negotiating with North Korea, we'll handle it.
  • 29:34Tim says he would have worked a phone bank for Hillary given how bad this is.
  • 30:10Trump throws paper towels to Puerto Ricans like he's won a prize at a carnival, except their entire country is destroyed.
  • 30:43Trump's full budget complaint: Puerto Rico has 'thrown our budget a little out of whack' after the hurricane.
  • 31:30Tim: no president in American history has mentioned money in a disastrous scenario like this.
  • 32:00Mentioning the budget while people have lost everything amounts to guilting them.
  • 32:18Trump could have given that diverted money to Lockheed for more helicopters instead of helping Puerto Rico.
  • 32:31Trump compares the hurricane to Katrina, says 'nobody's ever seen anything like this.'
  • 32:47Tim begins to make another point about Trump's character or behavior.
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Puerto RicoRex TillersonHillary ClintonNorth Korea

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