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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
From what I understand, government response on the Gulf coast (at every level) has been fantastic.
I'm not sure I understand what we are bitching about wrt Trump in regard to this? There are a thousand legitimate reasons to hate on Trump. Might be better to stick with the valid ones.
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While that is true it is important to note that there has not been really ANY response at the federal level yet (and there's nothing abnormal about that). The response has been local and state level officials mobilizing resources, some of which are coming from across the country.
The response to Harvey doesn't have anything to do with Trump yet, and may never have all that much to do with him, depending on how FEMA handles the aftermath. If they appear to be under-resourced, or unprepared due to not having people in place that Trump should have been appointing, that could be a problem for him but we are not there yet.
What we are left with is his response to the crisis thus far which has been (as is usual for him) utterly tone deaf and kind of insensitive. Analyzing that may not be "fair" in the strictest sense, but he has sort of brought that on himself if we are being honest.
After this is over, there may be a further discussion to be had about whether it makes sense for coastal and southern regions of the U.S. to be directing their limited resources toward an idiotic "border wall" when they need to be rebuilding their own infrastructure, but Trump still has a chance to make the right call there. We'll see what he does.