{"id":1937,"date":"2017-10-12T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/tom-perez-on-trumps-tweets-about-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:42:00","slug":"tom-perez-on-trumps-tweets-about-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-trumps-tweets-about-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perez on Trump\u2019s Tweets about Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today, President Trump<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/918432809282342912\"> <em>turned to Twitter<\/em><\/a><em> to say that the federal help desperately needed by the people of Puerto Rico won&rsquo;t be there &ldquo;forever.&rdquo; DNC Chair Tom Perez issued the following statement in response:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;American citizens are dying and Donald Trump is tweeting. This is just the latest example of Trump denigrating the people of Puerto Rico and treating them as second-class citizens. Our fellow Americans on the island need our unconditional support, not the president&rsquo;s childish insults and arrogant posturing. FEMA and other agencies must remain on the ground as long as needed, as they would in any other community recovering from a natural disaster. It&#39;s time for President Trump to stop acting like it&#39;s &lsquo;mission accomplished.&rsquo; Our mission has barely begun.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>El d&iacute;a de hoy el presidente Trump <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/918432809282342912\"><em>recurri&oacute; a Twitter<\/em><\/a> <em>para se&ntilde;alar que la ayuda federal que desesperadamente necesitan en Puerto Rico no estar&aacute; all&iacute; &ldquo;para siempre&rdquo;. &nbsp;Como respuesta, el Director del Comit&eacute; Nacional Dem&oacute;crata, Tom P&eacute;rez, realiz&oacute; las siguientes declaraciones:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ciudadanos estadounidenses est&aacute;n muriendo mientras Trump env&iacute;a tuits. Esto es s&oacute;lo el m&aacute;s reciente ejemplo del trato denigrante de Trump a los puertorrique&ntilde;os, consider&aacute;ndolos ciudadanos de segunda categor&iacute;a. Nuestros conciudadanos en la isla requieren nuestro apoyo incondicional, no los insultos y arrogancia infantil del presidente. FEMA y las otras agencias deben permanecer all&iacute; por el tiempo que sea necesario, como suceder&iacute;a en cualquier otra comunidad recuper&aacute;ndose de un desastre natural. Es el momento de que el presidente Trump deje de actuar como que &lsquo;el trabajo est&aacute; hecho&rsquo;. Esto apenas comienza&rdquo;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, President Trump turned to Twitter to say that the federal help desperately needed by the people of Puerto Rico won&rsquo;t be there &ldquo;forever.&rdquo; DNC Chair Tom Perez issued the following statement in response: &ldquo;American citizens are dying and Donald Trump is tweeting. This is just the latest example of Trump denigrating the people of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tom Perez on Trump\u2019s Tweets about Puerto Rico - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-trumps-tweets-about-puerto-rico\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-10-12T16:42:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-trumps-tweets-about-puerto-rico\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-trumps-tweets-about-puerto-rico\/\",\"name\":\"Tom Perez on Trump\u2019s Tweets about Puerto Rico - 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