President Donald Trump went on another Twitterstorm about Puerto Rico Saturday — this time praising Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and other officials and urging the "great people" of the island to "not believe the fake news" reports about the administration's response.
Trump is scheduled to visit Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday to view the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria.
Here are his posts:
President Trump came under fire for an earlier Twitterstorm that ripped San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz's "poor leadership" for her criticism and said that "they want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort."
"We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency," Cruz said Friday at a news conference, her voice breaking with rage. "I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us, to save us from dying."
She is a member of Puerto Rico's Popular Democratic Party.
Trump later slammed Cruz again on Twitter:
Trump had repeatedly praised the residents of Florida, Louisiana and Texas, which were hit by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, as strong and resilient — declaring at one point that Texas could "handle anything."
FEMA Administrator Brock Long told CNN Saturday that the agency established a joint field office "numerous" days ago in San Juan to centralize relief efforts and that Mayor Cruz needed to "make her way to the joint field office and get plugged into what's going on and be successful."
Trump later tweeted he'll visit the island territory on Tuesday and defended the job his administration is doing.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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