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Responding to Mr. Trump’s tweets on Saturday, Ms. Cruz said she would not be distracted by “small comments” and denied that she was attacking the president at the behest of the Democrats. “Actually, I was asking for help,” she told MSNBC. “I wasn’t saying anything nasty about the president.”

She pointed to comments made on Friday by Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, who is leading the response effort and who said on Friday that he did not have enough troops and equipment. “So who am I?” Ms. Cruz asked. “I’m just a little mayor from the capital city of San Juan. This is a three-star general telling the world that right now he does not have the appropriate means and tools to take care of the situation.”

Russel L. Honoré, the retired lieutenant general who took over the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 after an initially inadequate federal effort, also noted the president’s weekend retreat. “The mayor’s living on a cot, and I hope the president has a good day at golf,” he said on CNN.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/us/politics/trump-puerto-rico-mayor.html?