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Why Is President Trump Allowed To Minimize The National Tragedy That Is Hurricane Maria?

Where are the critics of Congresswoman Omar?

Ezinne Ukoha
6 min readMay 8, 2019

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It’s been almost two years since the mammoth storm that was Hurricane Maria made landfall, and basically destabilized the island of Puerto Rico. The catastrophic event was a major setback for a territory that wasn’t prepared for the estimated $91.61 billion in damages.

Almost immediately after Puerto Rico was ravaged by the ire of Mother Nature, there was a growing tension between Puerto Rico and the toxic administration under the tutelage of a shameless bigot, who demonstrated his staunch allegiance to White supremacy with his disastrous visit to Ground Zero, where his bored wife and supposed first lady, watched him toss paper towels to a crowd of Brown bodies.

The months after Hurricane Maria was a harrowing period of unruliness that was exacerbated by blunt attacks that Trump levied on PR Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who was forced to engage in Twitter wars with the Commander-in-Chief, while she desperately begged for financial assistance for a crippled island that couldn’t to keep the lights on.

While the media was showcasing award-winning coverage for the globally viable migrant crisis that officially added the United States to the list of…

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