George,  I bet you and I would enjoy drinking beers together talking politics and Broncos.  You are indeed accurate, the island always has been as bad as all of the others and because of the ridiculous graft, the common people suffer.  Outside of cruise ship ports, it gets pretty rural.  This once in a century hurricane just completely scrubbed them without the basic standards that Americans should expect for all of our citizens (electricity, food, water, etc).  Until you've sat under a corrugated tin roofed bar in the gentle rain out in middle of nowhere, you really haven't experienced the wonder of Puerto Rico.  Now that is all gone.  For Trump to say this so soon is just confounding. I mean it hasn't even been a month out yet.  This guy has had so many things happen (storms, shootings, wildfires, revolving door of Cabinet members, etc) under his short tenure that you'd have to be crazy to even question him.