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NFL Players Kneeling During National Anthem: How Colin Kaepernick Started a Movement and Why
away from political dis- Trump tweeted on Sept. nel to Puerto Rico in the

course on myriad topics, 25. “...owed to Wall Street immediate aftermath of
including a new travel and the banks which, the storm – announced
ban, health care and tax sadly, must be dealt with. Wednesday that additional

reform, and the devasta- Food, water and medical emergency management
tion in Puerto Rico in the are top priorities - and do- experts and FDNY mem-

aftermath of Hurricane ing well. #FEMA” bers would be deployed to
Maria. Caught off guard Trump insisted to report- the area, bringing the total
by the severity of Hur- ers on Sept. 26 that he was number of city workers on

ricane Maria’s damage to not preoccupied with the the ground to 147.
the U.S. island territory, NFL controversy and that

Trump did not focus on he could multi-task. He The White House, mean-
the storm for days. Trump visited Puerto Rico the while, stepped up its ef-
came under fire after he following week. forts to show Trump in

tweeted more than a dozen charge of the crisis, orga-
times about the NFL while But with the territory’s 3.4 nizing a meeting of major

only posting a series of million people struggling Cabinet officials to go
three connected tweets to get food, water, power over the federal response
about Puerto Rico in the and shelter, Democratic to Puerto Rico. An of-

same amount of time. leaders in Congress and ficial photo of the meet-
“Texas & Florida are do some Puerto Rico resi- ing in the Situation Room

ing great but Puerto Rico, dents, who are U.S. citi- showed Trump at the head
which was already suf- zens, accused the Trump of a long table, getting
fering from broken infra- administration of being briefed on the crisis.

structure & massive debt, more sluggish in its re-
is in deep trouble...It’s sponse than to disasters on With Reuters: contact

old electrical grid, which the U.S. mainland. Lauren Cook at lauren.
was in terrible shape, was Mayor Bill de Blasio – cook@amny.com
devastated. Much of the who sent a task force of

Island was destroyed, specially trained NYPD,
with billions of dollars...” FDNY and EMS person-

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