Apparently, the left decided to make Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico “Trump’s Katrina.” Suddenly, they’re falling over themselves to whitewash past praise for the president.
Last week, Lin-Manuel Miranda—the Puerto Rican composer who wrote the smash Broadway musical Hamilton—was effusive in his praise for all Trump had done to help the U.S. territory recover.
“Thank you, @realDonaldTrump. All hands on deck,” Miranda tweeted.
But, by the weekend, Miranda decided that tweet was no longer politically astute. As the left heaped criticism on President Trump in a coordinated attack, Miranda quietly deleted the inconvenient tweet.
Miranda replaced his praise with, well, something a bit more critical:
You’re going straight to hell, @realDonaldTrump.
No long lines for you.
Someone will say, “Right this way, sir.”
They’ll clear a path. https://t.co/xXfJH0KJmw— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) September 30, 2017
He echoed that sentiment three minutes later, in response to Trump criticizing San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin for poor leadership:
She has been working 24/7.
You have been GOLFING.
You’re going straight to hell.
Fastest golf cart you ever took. https://t.co/5hOY23MBvQ— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) September 30, 2017
But Miranda isn’t the only one on the left who decided to have a field day over the devastation in Puerto Rico. Despite the media dedicating hardly any time to Hurricane Maria—preferring, instead, to savage Trump for his Twitter war with the NFL—they quickly redirected their attention when it became apparent that Puerto Rico was a better line of attack on the president.
Because Puerto Rico is more than a thousand miles from the U.S. mainland and because its infrastructure was already collapsing even before the storm, it was initially unclear to many independent-minded Americans whether any political leader could have avoided the tragedy. Never satisfied to let a crisis go to waste, leftists decided to pounce.
AAN Staff
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