President Trump on Thursday posted another tweet on the hurricane relief effort in Puerto Rico.
President Trump on Thursday accused Puerto Rico and Democrats of falsely reporting 3,000 Hurricane Maria-related deaths. "3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico," he tweeted. "When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000." "This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico," Trump also noted. "If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!" Notably, Puerto Rico recently increased its official hurricane death toll from 64 to 2,975, a number based on a study by George Washington University.
Trump's tweets came days after he called his administration's response to hurricanes in Puerto Rico "an incredible, unsung success."