Trump on His Administration’s Response to Puerto Rico: ‘I Give Ourselves a 10’

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TRUMP: “I’d say it was a 10. I’d say was probably the most difficult — when you talk about relief, when you talk about search, when you talk about all of the different levels. And even when you talk about lives saved, you look at the numbers, I think it was worse than Katrina. In many ways it was worse than anything people have ever seen. They got hit by a category four — grazed, but grazed about a big portion of the island, but it was grazed. The rest of it hit Florida, as you know. But that was bad. And then they got hit dead center. If you look at those maps by a category five, nobody has ever heard of a five hitting land. Usually by that time it’s dissipated. And it kept to a five. It hit right through the middle of the island, right through the middle of Puerto Rico. There’s never been anything like that. I give ourselves a 10. I think that locally, I really think locally they have, in this gentleman, great leadership. I have to tell you, it is a tough job, but we have provided so much so fast. We were actually there before the storm hit. We were there before the first storm, before the category four hit. Brock and the military and a lot of people were there  before the storm. We had the Coast Guard waiting for the storm just outside the storm and following the storm in. Many lives saved. The Coast Guard in Texas saved 16,000 lives. The Coast Guard is incredible, the job they’ve done. But all of the Armed Forces, what they’ve done has been Army, Navy, Marines, the Air Force, all of the goods dropped in, helicopters that weren’t even met for this purpose, all of a sudden they're delivering food and services. I would give a 10."