Threatens to pull FEMA and military from Puerto Rico three weeks after Hurricane Maria

In morning tweets, Trump wrote that federal responders could not stay in Puerto Rico 'forever,' blamed the island for 'a financial crisis looms largely of their own making,' and said its infrastructure 'was disaster before hurricanes.' At the time roughly 90 percent of Puerto Rico's 3.4 million U.S. citizens lacked electricity and about a third lacked potable water following Hurricane Maria. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz said the tweets were 'adding insult to injury' and showed 'the inadequacy of your government's response to this humanitarian crisis.' The threat continued his documented pattern of disparaging Puerto Rico's recovery, following the October 3 visit and earlier attacks on Cruz.

"We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!" Quote verified against source