Obama’s Photographer Totally Trolled Trump’s Response to Hurricane Harvey
Barack Obama’s White House photographer Pete Souza is kinda-sorta mocking Trump — and has been for a while. The latest jab is at Trump’s response to Hurricane Harvey.
Pete shared on his Instagram a photo of Obama consoling a victim from Hurricane Sandy in 2012 as well as the F5 tornado in Missouri in 2011. “At a time like this, it shouldn’t be about selling baseball hats or commenting on crowd size,” he wrote.
“How we respond when the storm strikes is up to us. How we live in the aftermath of tragedy and heartache, that’s within our control. And it’s in these moments, through our actions, that we often see the glimpse of what makes life worth living in the first place,” he wrote about the latter picture.
According to Politico, when Trump took to the streets in Texas, he “didn’t meet a single storm victim, see an inch of rain, or get near a flooded street.” He did, however, make a rally-style speech in Corpus Christi, TX, where he praised the “turnout” of people who gathered to watch him from the street.
Trump to hurricane victims in Corpus Christi, TX: “Thank you everybody. What a crowd, what a turnout.” (via Reuters) pic.twitter.com/kVe3f8NmTL
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 29, 2017