Trump Brags About Crowd Size, Barely Mentions Victims in Hurricane Harvey Speech
Donald Trump visited the Texas city of Corpus Christi on Tuesday to reassure an anxious nation that his administration was capable of handling Hurricane Harvey.
There, after an uncomfortable press conference in which he boasted that FEMA administrator Brock Long “has really become very famous on television over the last couple of days,” the president got his Independence Day on, shouting into a microphone to several hundred onlookers gathered outside the briefing space.
Because he is himself, Trump offered bland words of encouragement and bumper-sticker platitudes (“Texas can handle anything!”) before pivoting to what REALLY matters during a natural disaster: Crowd size.