CNN political Ana Navarro went into a rant Thursday regarding her distaste for President Trump’s tweets casting doubt on the voracity of the latest death toll estimated in Puerto Rico as a result of last year’s Hurricane Maria.
In a pair of tweets Thursday morning, Trump said “3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico,” one of which was Maria, and claimed, without evidence, that inflated numbers were a result of politically motivated Democrats.
Starting by calling Trump’s tweets “stupid” and “offensive,” Navarro, who is Latina and a big critic of the president, argued the political collateral damage was so great that Republicans will suffer the consequences.
“How stupid, how tone deaf, how surreal, how insensitive, how offensive, how offensive to the relatives of the 3,000 people who died in Puerto Rico,” she said on CNN when asked to react to Trump’s tweets. “Just, you know, how wrong in every single way: morally, politically. I mean, how can this be coming from the president of the United States? And frankly, he’s doing so much harm not only to, you know, as we’re in the midst of hurricane preparation and dealing with a hurricane, he’s doing harm to even his political allies in Florida. There is a reason why two people who are very close to Donald Trump, Rick Scott who is running for U.S. Senate and Ron Desantis, who is running for governor, came out immediately today to distance themselves from this.”
[Related: Twitter rips Trump for claiming Puerto Rico death toll was inflated, devised by Democrats]
.@ananavarro reacts to Donald Trump’s tweets on Puerto Rico calling them:
•Stupid
•Tone deaf
•Surreal
•Insensitive
•Offensivehttps://t.co/IBr31YBLLj pic.twitter.com/veU9hFEpvv— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 13, 2018
She went on to urge Puerto Ricans who have moved to Florida to rally against Trump and Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections.
“There are Puerto Ricans who’ve moved to Florida, who could make or break statewide elections in Florida in 2018 and I hope all those Puerto Ricans and all those people who know Puerto Ricans in Florida or who like Puerto Ricans, who are mad as hell at this tweet remember that the deadline to register to Florida if you moved is Oct. 9. Just do it,” she said.
