The View‘s Sunny Hostin Shreds Trump Over Puerto Rico: The U.S. Government ‘Allowed Its Own Citizens to Die’
The View, on Wednesday, slammed President Donald Trump for his self-praise on how he handled the hurricane response in Puerto Rico — leading Sunny Hostin to state that the president and his government allowed people to die.
With Hurricane Florence approaching the southeastern U.S., Trump has been touting his administration’s emergency preparedness — saying he handled the situation in Puerto Rico fantastically despite the critics. This comes after recent reports found that nearly 3,000 Puerto Ricans died as a result of last year’s storm.
Abby Hunstman panned Trump’s remarks on Wednesday, saying they were “indefensible,” “out of touch” and resemblant of the George W. Bush administration’s approach to Hurricane Katrina.
Hostin took the baton from there. And the co-host — whose family was directly impacted by the hurricane — absolutely shredded Trump while invoking the reports that the administration took $10 million away from FEMA and gave it to ICE.
“It’s humiliating, it’s embarrassing for our country, and I don’t think this president cares,” Hostin said. “If you’re in Florence’s path and considering riding it out, your president just said that a hurricane response where 3,000 die is his measure of success. Get out of there.”
The ladies questioned whether Trump even cares about the body count in Puerto Rico, and whether – as Whoopi Goldberg put it – “he’s living in a whole other realm of reality.” The panel agreed that Trump hasn’t done very much to convince the Puerto Rican people that he truly sympathizes with them. And Hostin further lambasted the administration for not doing enough to stop the preventable deaths after the storm.
“So we’re talking about the fact that this government allowed its own citizens to die,” Hostin said. “I thought that’s what we only saw in dictatorships.”
That comment stunned the panel as they took in the intensity of Hostin’s accusation.
Watch above, via ABC.
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