who’s gonna tell trump supporters obama wasn’t president during hurricane katrina……..
My favorite part of this is people mentioned Barack Obama in these tweets! So who’s going to tell them? I hope Obama does! I mean, it was three years after Hurricane Katrina when Obama was elected president. Three years. Almost all of George W. Bush’s second term happened during and after Katrina. Where were these people that they don’t even know who was president? There was so much news about the hurricane and W’s terrible response to it. They’ll probably blame him for the Kennedy assassination next.
This is what I mean about how a worrying number of Trump supporters seem to have a limited grasp on reality in order to preserve their belief that electing him was the right thing.
Also Obama was there even though he wasn’t yet president.
The opposite side of things was this picture of Bush that backfired on him spectacularly:
Further fact check: Obama had only been a senator for nine months when Katrina hit. He gave a speech at a Harvard Black alumni event where he discussed Katrina:
Later in his speech, Obama speculated that “corruption and cronyism” were involved in the appointment of former FEMA director Michael D. Brown. But while he told the crowd of prominent lawyers, academics, and business leaders that he shared Democrats’ anger towards the government, he said there is also a danger of “smugness and self-satisfaction.”
Obama added that the nation’s most significant deficit is its lack of empathy. “We’ve been lulled into a certain apathy,” he said.
In the question-and-answer session, Obama discussed his nine months in office as the only African-American in the Senate and his experience with colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
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