San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz has a new message for Donald Trump. During an interview on talk show Al Punto on Wednesday, Cruz wore a black shirt featuring the white letters 'nasty' (photo, above). It’s the word the president used to describe her behavior in a tweet last week, and one he made famous during the 2016 campaign, as well. “What is truly nasty is that anyone would turn their back on the Puerto Rican people,” she said in the interview, conducted in Spanish.
Trump is known to get into verbal ruts with his insults, from “bad food restaurants” to “sad”, and seems to reserve “nasty” for a specific kind of antagonist, though always a woman. During the 19 October 2016, presidential debate with Hillary Clinton he called her a “nasty woman”, inspiring T-shirt and button sales around the country from Clinton supporters ready to instantly reclaim the phrase. “Nasty woman” T-shirts were popular voting attire, but, as Cruz is proving, they haven’t gone totally out of vogue yet.
In an interview with CNN last Friday, Cruz wore a shirt that said, “Help us; we are dying.” Her pleas followed news that the Trump administration’s initial response to Hurricane Maria was far outmatched by the damage from the storm. Hurricane Maria destroyed more than ten thousand homes in Puerto Rico, and eighty percent of its transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the president, who visited the territory on Tuesday, suggested, per The Atlantic, that Puerto Rico did not endure a “real catastrophe.”
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