Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump's Puerto Rico Tweets Are Part of the Same Old War

The president's latest attacks on the media and his critics can't hide his administration's failures.

October 1, 2017 at 7:46 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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President Donald Trump rocketed across the Twitterverse this weekend taking on those who have given him poor reviews for his response to the humanitarian crisis in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico.

On Saturday, some of this was directed at the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz, who has been critical of Trump’s response to the calamity: