Trump Fumbles in Puerto Rico Lives Will Be Lost Because His Delay in Taking Action

 Navy's Hospital ship Comfort finally is getting ready to leave port. No one thought it might be needed in what Trump called, the worse storm ever to hit PR. It should get there in about 9 days from yesterday (tusday). One guess in whose been tweeting and calling for it. It's a woman who just left politics.

Just to make one point in regards to the tittle on top and before I give you the facts from the Main Media which are verified by this blog: The order to get the Hospital ship to PR was issued yesterday by Trump (H.Clinton was one of the main people asking for it in tweets). It will get there 9 days from yesterday (tuesday) or three? weeks from Maria's Landing in PR. The Mayor of San Juan says FEMA is working hard with meetings and memos asking for what she needs. She keeps yelling through the media: WATER; FOOD, DIESEL What is so hard about that?  When all those things are already in PR? The mayor says the boots are on the ground but are not moving! Katrina you might say? Yes I say because I saw Katrina. Iam not in PR but family there tells me they have no water and no place to get it and this is in the Metro area in Bayamon (the New San Juan).

One more thing, Trump mentioning  PR debt when PR is sinking would be funny if not offensive and deadly. By the way Trump is in default on his payments to his Gulf Coarse in the Island.

Adam Gonzalez, Publisher

[The Following is by Stephen Collinson, CNN. It has been edited to just address the Puerto Rico dilemma]

You know a president is in trouble when he has to insist he's up to the job.

But stung by a worsening post hurricane crisis in Puerto Rico, an escalating North Korea nuclear showdown, the humiliating failure to repeal Obamacare and the stunning defeat of his favored candidate in Alabama's Republican primary, that moment has arrived for Donald Trump.

The President is being forced to deny that his Twitter blasts and culture war shots at NFL players protesting racial grievances show that he's too distracted to lead amid creating political storms.

"I've heard that before, about was I preoccupied? Not at all, not at all. I have plenty of time on my hands. All I do is work," said Trump, when asked at a Rose Garden news conference whether his feud with NFL players had caused him to take his eye off the ball over the fast worsening hurricane crisis in Puerto Rico.

Given the magnitude of issues he's facing, it was not surprising that Trump sometimes seemed to be flailing Tuesday, a day of upheaval that served as a microcosm of his turbulent eight months in power that has delighted his fans but rocked much of the rest of the nation and the world. 

History shows that any hints of incompetence at a time of national security crisis can deal a devastating blow to a presidency. A sense that a White House is powerless, meanwhile, to control the political winds of Washington can be equally as damaging -- especially when a commander-in-chief is as polarizing as Trump.

But the President, while flashing characteristic defiance, also showed hints of political self-awareness suggesting he understands the gravity of his political plight as intense pressures bear down on his White House.

This White House, for all the loyalty of Trump's fervent political base, could soon find itself facing up to any of these realities if it allows the myriad crisis facing the President to spin any further out of control.

Trump's critics, for instance, warn he's about to have a Katrina moment -- as questions mount over his handling of the Hurricane Maria disaster, as the desperate plight of Puerto Rican citizens begins to emerge.

At the same time, he's taking the world closer to the brink with North Korea, exacerbating a nuclear crisis with no clear face saving exit for himself or dictator Kim Jong Un.

And he took another blow on the chin on Tuesday night, when his favored candidate lost Alabama's Republican Senate primary to Roy Moore, an iconoclast who showed up to vote on horseback and who makes his own theatrics seem tame.

Trump's administration and fellow Republicans meanwhile are staggering from yet another failure to use their monopoly on power to repeal Obamacare.

And quietly, the Russia investigation, which has haunted the Trump presidency, marched on Tuesday, when it emerged that top White House officials face questioning from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe in the coming days. 

The most immediate political threat to the White House is posed by the situation in Puerto Rico, with the island facing power blackouts, water and food shortages, and with its infrastructure of hospitals and basic services dark.

If things get worse fast, the President may come to rue the self-congratulatory moment he created on Tuesday.

"As far as Puerto Rico is concerned ... we have had tremendous reviews from government officials, as we have in Texas and Louisiana," Trump told reporters.

"And this morning, the governor made incredible statements about how well we're doing," Trump said.

His search for personal praise was characteristic, as was his effort Monday night in a tweet to pass blame for the island's current plight as he bemoaned its old infrastructure and debts.

Trump did make the valid point that rushing hurricane relief to an island was a tougher proposition than relieving Texas and Florida after their recent monster storms.

"This is, you know, a thing called the Atlantic Ocean. This is tough stuff," he said.

But the administration's frenetic activity Tuesday showed that it understands that if it does not get a handle on the situation quickly, Trump's response risks looking too small for the crisis.

"If the President doesn't grasp the severity of the situation this is going to be his legacy," Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York warned. "This is the most powerful country in the world, and this is how we treat our citizens? Shame on us."

As pressure mounted, the White House released pictures of Trump in a Situation Room meeting on the crisis. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke and FEMA administrator William Brock appeared outside the West Wing to hurriedly brief reporters on the progress of the relief effort.

Trump meanwhile announced he would go to Puerto Rico next Tuesday.

 A Humiliating loss..........