Trump throwing paper towels at a crowd in Puerto Rico is his strangest attempt at hurricane relief yet
President Trump lobbed paper towels into a crowd at a church in Puerto Rico Tuesday where he was meeting with Hurricane Maria survivors.
Photos and pool reports documented his visit at the Calvary Chapel in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, at an event for those impacted by the destructive hurricane last month. Trump was handing out supplies as part of a one-day visit to the island to survey hurricane damage.
The weird moment where he took a basketball stance and threw the rolls into the crowd had a lot of viewers at home scratching their heads.
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The White House pool report interjected its own commentary about Trump impersonating Golden State Warrior basketball star (and man who will not be visiting the White House) Steph Curry.
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Earlier Tuesday, Trump gave a briefing where he said a bunch of inappropriate things like comparing the death count from Hurricane Maria to Hurricane Katrina and indicating Puerto Rico's wasn't a "real catastrophe." He also appeared to deried he devastated island for throwing off the budget in a strange attempt at a joke.
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Trump did manage to hand out some supplies like a normal person: simply by passing things along to people struck hard by a devastating natural disaster.
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But then he reportedly told survivors to "have a good time," so. We'll call it a wash.
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.