President Donald Trump visited Puerto Rico on USA ArchivesTuesday, long after a Category 4 hurricane wrecked much of the U.S. territory.
Critics have said the White House's response to Hurricane Maria has been anemic as Puerto Ricans try to survive without water and electricity, and Trump has done all he can to shout down his detractors. The vast majority of people in Puerto Rico are still without power and cell service, and the majority of the island's residents don't have potable water.
SEE ALSO: Photos reveal dire situation unfolding in Puerto Rico after Hurricane MariaWe've broken down Trump's response to Puerto Rico's desperate situation, below.
Hurricane Maria roared into Puerto Rico on Sept. 20. Trump's visit came on Oct. 3.
A flight from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico -- and back -- would take roughly 7.5 hours. Now, the president doesn't take off from the de-facto D.C. airport, and he wouldn't have to wait in an airplane queue before getting off the ground, so his flight time would probably be a bit different.
Trump tweeted the day before the storm officially hit the island, and tweeted on Sept. 20 as well.
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The president basically blamed Puerto Rico for the devastation, which didn't go over well with many people.
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The president has tapped out 34 tweets about the island as of about 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, not including retweets. Of those 34, 19 have been what we'd call defensive. Trump has yelled at San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who had criticized the administration's response to the catastrophe, and he's whined about news coverage of the administration's efforts to help Puerto Ricans. Here's a sampling of that defensiveness:
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Never want to seem low energy, I guess.
Trump arrived in Puerto Rico just before noon ET on Tuesday, and Air Force One was in the air back to Washington, D.C. a little more than four hours later.
The president spoke on and off for about 17 minutes at Muñiz Air National Guard Base in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, talking with officials from the military as well as Puerto Rico.
Trump's comments were highlighted by painfully awkward and eyebrow-raising moments, such as when he appeared to joke about the amount of money the U.S. was spending to aid Puerto Rico's recovery.
"Now, I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico, and that's fine," the president said.
The president also briefly mentioned Puerto Rico during four minutes of discussion with Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló and Kenneth Mapp, the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, while they were aboard the USS Kearsarge later in the afternoon.
Golf Weektells us that the generally agreed-upon time it takes to play 18 holes of golf is about four hours, which is also about the length of time Trump tends to disappear for when he's close to a few greens, according to Newsweek.
The times -- obviously -- vary with the course and the wind and whether any administration officials call the president in a panic because who knows.
The president was recently blasted for dedicating a golf tournament trophy to hurricane victims in Florida, Puerto Rico and Texas, amid allegations that his administration wasn't providing nearly enough relief to Puerto Ricans.
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Puerto Rico pulled in around $8 billion in 2016 as a "direct" and "indirect" result of tourism, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council [PDF].
That number was expected to climb this year until Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria wrecked much of the island.
As of 2014, Puerto Rico was seeing somewhere just north of 3 million tourists per year, a number that had held steady for around two decades. But there are strong signs that number had climbed in recent years, as is indicated by the recent uptick in the amount of money made off tourism.
The Washington Postran a vacation check on President Donald Trump on Aug. 3, 196 days into his presidency. At that point, Trump had taken a vacation on "all or part of 53 days in office," which amounted to 27 percent of his tenure. This, of course, from the man who said he would "rarely" golf as president, and publicly shunned the idea of taking vacations while sitting at the head of the United States.
Puerto Rico is home to 3.4 million people who reside on around 3,423 square miles of land.
Upon returning to the nation's mainland on Tuesday, Trump said all he heard from the island's residents was "thank you."
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