1. ‘What a great job’
“It’s now acknowledged what a great job we’ve done,” Donald Trump told reporters on a trip to Puerto Rico. Trump told local officials: “I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack. But that’s fine because we’ve saved a lot of lives.”
'A real catastrophe'
Every death is a horror. But if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous – hundreds and hundreds of people that died – and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering … no one has ever seen anything like this.
– Trump in Puerto Rico, I
Summary
Per pooler @Carrasquillo, Trump said on a walking tour in Puerto Rico "the concrete holds up but the wood doesn't"
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) October 3, 2017
'It's expensive'
So I appreciate your support and I know you appreciate our support, because our country has really gone all out to help. And it’s not only dangerous, it’s expensive, it’s everything. But I consider it a great honor, maybe because I know so many people from Puerto Rico that are such great people – I come from New York.
– Trump in Puerto Rico, II
3. We’ll get around to it
“We’ll be talking about gun laws as time goes on,” Trump told reporters two days after the country’s deadliest mass shooting. Trump called the shooter “a sick man, a demented man, a lot of problems, I guess”, adding: “We’re looking into him very, very seriously.”
4. Mattis backs Iran deal
The defense secretary, James Mattis ,said it was in the US’s national security interest to maintain the Iran nuclear deal, breaking with Trump and potentially making it harder for the president to withdraw from the agreement.
5. MoochPo
Anthony Scaramucci, the New York hedge-fund millionaire who lasted 10 days as Donald Trump’s White House communications director, spent almost all of Monday unveiling his latest venture: a media company called the Scaramucci Post.
... and another thing:
This Joe Biden photo from @JoeSonger22 is so great. pic.twitter.com/YBgbYLK3q0
— John Talty (@JTalty) October 3, 2017
