Puerto Whoco?

Remember Puerto Rico, where every resident is an American citizen and Trump tossed paper towels at them after hurricane Maria while bragging about how few people were killed?

"Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here, with a storm that was really, totally overpowering — nobody's ever seen anything like this — and what is your death count as of this moment? Seventeen?"

"Sixteen." 

"You can be very proud, 16 people versus in the thousands,"

Cross included in background for extra dose of hypocrisy.

Turns out, estimating death counts before the emergency is over isn't very accurate.

Over 4,600 people died in Puerto Rico during the aftermath of Hurricane Maria ― more than 70 times the official death toll ― according to a new Harvard study released Tuesday.  Link

Those ingrates! Don't they know that dying on Trump's watch makes him look bad? How dare they!

Ha! I'm kidding. No one's paying attention to Puerto Rico any more so those 4,600 dead people can't make Trump look bad!

Of course, many of those deaths can be directly attributable to the piss poor response of the federal government under Trump's direction. President George W. Bush took a huge political hit because of his incompetent handling of hurricane Katrina, but Trump's many, many, many scandals have shifted attention away from the abandonment of these American citizens by their elected representatives.

Which leads to this.

Link to interactive timer.

Puerto Rico, call us when you're a "real catastrophe".