Donald Trump: I will go to Puerto Rico next Tuesday
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that he would be going to Puerto Rico to visit the island, which had been devastated by hurricanes, next Tuesday.
“I know many Puerto Ricans, and they’re great people and we have to help them. It really was devastated. Some people say, I read it this morning, it’s literally destroyed,” he said, adding, “The infrastructure was in bad shape as you know in Puerto Rico before the storm, and now in many cases, it has no infrastructure, so it’s, you’re really starting from almost scratch.”
He also floated the possibility that he would visit the US Virgin Islands during the trip.
— Marc Anthony tells Trump to ‘shut the f**k up’ and help Puerto Ricans in need —
Later, during a news conference alongside Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Trump said that a “massive effort” to help Puerto Rico was ongoing. He said that the efforts were more difficult than the relief effort for Hurricanes Irma and Harvey because of the geography of Puerto Rico.
“It’s very tough because it’s an island. In Texas, we can ship the trucks right out there, you know, we’ve got A-pluses on Texas and Florida and we will also on Puerto Rico, but the difference is this is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean, and it’s a big ocean, it’s a very big ocean, and I think we’re doing a really good job,” he said during his earlier comments in the Roosevelt Room.
