It is typical Trump to criticize as a ways of obscuring his horrible record handling disasters beyond his mishandling of the pandemic.
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/trump-administrations-top-20-actions-kept-puerto-ricans-crisis/
In February 2020, President Donald Trump threatened to veto a $4.7 billion emergency aid package intended to help Puerto Rico recover from a series of damaging earthquakes.
When a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico in January 2020*, President Trump remained publicly silent about the emergency, even though he often publicly comments on natural disasters.
In December 2019, President Trump personally intervened in budget talks to cut Medicaid funding to Puerto Rico by half.
The Trump administration imposed severe restrictions on billions of dollars in emergency relief to Puerto Rico.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/12/politics/donald-trump-puerto-rico-tweets/index.html
Trump: We cannot aid Puerto Rico ‘forever’
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that Puerto Rico is going to have to shoulder more responsibility for recovery efforts from Hurricane Maria, saying the federal government’s emergency responders can’t stay there “forever.”
His comments – in which he also blamed the beleaguered island for a financial crisis “largely of their own making” and infrastructure that was a “disaster” before the hurricane – come as Puerto Rico still reels from a lack of electricity, public health access and a rising death toll. The remarks quickly prompted cries from Democratic lawmakers, who argue that Puerto Rico still needs a lot of help, as well as the mayor of San Juan, who said they were “unbecoming” and appeared to come from a “hater in chief.”
Meanwhile, Texas and Florida – two states Trump won during last year’s presidential election – also were struck by severe hurricanes recently, but the President has made no public indication that the federal government is pulling back on its response there.
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