• White House spokesman calls Puerto Rico "that country" twice in interview
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-spokesman-twice-calls-puerto-rico-that-country-in-tv-interview/2019/04/02/5c922e06-5556-11e9-9136-f8e636f1f6df_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c3c069fc05cf White House spokesman Hogan Gidley twice referred to Puerto Rico as “that country” during a television appearance Tuesday in which he defended a series of tweets by President Trump lashing out at leaders of the U.S. territory. In two bursts of tweets — one late Monday night and another Tuesday morning — Trump complained about the amount of federal relief money going to the island and called its politicians “incompetent or corrupt.” As he pressed to defend Trump’s contentions, Gidley sought to make the case that the leaders of the territory, whose residents are U.S. citizens, have mishandled the aid they’ve received thus far. “With all they’ve done in that country, they’ve had a systematic mismanagement of the goods and services we’ve sent to them,” Gidley said. “You’ve seen food just rotting in the ports. Their governor has done a horrible job. He’s trying to make political hay in a political year, and he’s trying to find someone to take the blame off of his for not having a grid and not having a good system in that country at all.” Gidley later attributed his misstatements to “a slip of the tongue.”
To be fair, the president of Puerto Rico is a corrupt piece of shit.
isn't the president of Puerto Rico essentially forced to comply with an unelected territorial management board that's got a hard on for austarity
I wish he would be impeached and deported to mars
The President of Puerto Rico, as a US territory, is Trump. Puerto Rico is regionally governed by a governor, more or less the same as any state or commonwealth in the country. You may be right with PR's local leadership, but I wanted to clarify since you missed the joke.
Which in itself is a reference to this.
Gidley later attributed his misstatements to “a slip of the tongue.” A Freudian slip, I'd bet.
damn you're right. I misread president as governor
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