This week, Texas saw disappointment and disaster like no other… when Donald Trump tried to turn a crowd of devastated flood victims into a re-election rally.
Sure, the president’s cartoonish charisma may have picked up the morale — that’s his version of Barack Obama‘s human empathy, after all — but it looks like he also exaggerated how deep he plunged into the wreckage.
After leaving Houston, POTUS tweeted a message of support to the people of Texas, saying he witnessed the devastation left by the Hurricane Harvey “first hand.”
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Okay, seems fair. We saw him down there (plugging some Trump-USA hats, but we’ll take what we can get from this guy) speaking to crowds. Maybe this one tweet is genuine and not completely fabricated?
LOL├óΓé¼┬ª yeah right! One of the responses came from White House correspondent Andrew Beatty, who claimed he traveled with the president — and clarified they didn’t come close to anything he would consider calling a “first hand” experience:
After witnessing first hand the horror & devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey,my heart goes out even more so to the great people of Texas!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2017
I traveled with the President yesterday. Personally, I would not claim to have seen Harvey’s horror and devastation first hand. https://t.co/Zb7bsF5CW5
— Andrew Beatty (@AndrewBeatty) August 30, 2017
Now, that’s more like it!
We don’t know what’s worse: Trump not giving a shit about the honesty of his tweets, or him actually believing he saw the worst parts of the flood.
Because sadly, both scenarios are just as likely to be possible.
[Image via Instagram.]
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