Attacks San Juan mayor's 'poor leadership' amid Puerto Rico crisis, says residents 'want everything

From his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump posted a series of tweets attacking San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who had pleaded for federal aid as Puerto Rico remained largely without power and water after Hurricane Maria. He wrote that Cruz showed 'poor leadership' and had been 'told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump,' and asserted that Puerto Ricans 'want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort.' The tweets came a day after Cruz said at a news conference, 'We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy.' Commentators described the attacks as directed at a local official leading disaster response for U.S. citizens during an ongoing humanitarian emergency.

"Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort." Quote verified against source