Meanwhile Trump is spraying racist venom at Puerto Rico and Carmen Yulín Cruz.

Trump, who has reportedly said in private that he doesn’t want “another single dollar” going to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, again complained about funding for the island and called San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, a frequent critic, “crazed and incompetent.”

“The Democrats today killed a Bill that would have provided great relief to Farmers and yet more money to Puerto Rico despite the fact that Puerto Rico has already been scheduled to receive more hurricane relief funding than any ‘place’ in history,” Trump tweeted around 11 p.m.

What’s with “place”? What are we supposed to think? That places are only for pale people, or people who speak English only, or people whose last name is Trump? That Puerto Rico isn’t really a place because it’s actually what Trump so adultly calls “a shithole”? It’s clearly intended as a sneer of some kind, but it doesn’t exactly fit any known pattern; “place” is not generally an honorific.

“The people of Puerto Rico are GREAT, but the politicians are incompetent or corrupt.”

Says the most incompetent and corrupt president we’ve ever had, by a huge margin. Project much?

In his tweets, Trump raised a familiar, contested figure for disaster relief in Puerto Rico. Although the president has repeatedly claimed that $91 billion has been spent there, that figure actually reflects a high-end, long-term estimate for recovery costs; a fraction of that has so far been budgeted, and even less has been spent.

Speaking of incompetent…a guy who thinks he gets to talk about projected long-term estimates as already spent rings the bell.

He was so talkative on this one that the Post didn’t get to all the tweets. Like this one:

Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2019

Yet again, despite countless reminders that Puerto Rico is part of the USA, he talks about it as if it were another country. Meanwhile he takes a lot more from the USA than Puerto Rico does, and with less legality.