‘This Isn’t a Reality Show’: Internet Outraged After Trump Tells Texans in Hurricane’s Path ‘Good Luck!’

‘Good Luck to Everybody’

Before President Trump headed off for a weekend at Camp David with his family, he ordered the vice president to cancel his trip to Nevada and stay in the White House as Hurricane Harvey begins to bear down on Texas and nearby states. 

Walking to his helicopter Friday afternoon, reporters asked Trump if he had a message for the people of Texas.

“Good luck to everybody,” Trump responded after giving reporters the thumbs up. “Good luck to everybody. They’re going to be safe. Good luck,” he said, as he waved goodbye.

He also made a fist and pushed into the air as if to say, “be strong.”

Hurricane Harvey is currently a category 3 storm. It’s being compared to Hurricane Katrina. Millions of Americans are in its path. It’s the worst hurricane to hit the U.S. in 12 years. Sadly, as hard as it is to say, people are going to be injured, and some people are in all likelihood going to die.

The Internet is not amused.

Trump’s remarks are being received just as his comments about ten Navy sailors who died last weekend when the USS John S. McCain was accidentally rammed by a fuel tanker three times its size.

“That’s too bad,” Trump told reporters Sunday night as he was exiting Air Force One. 

Friday afternoon, on Twitter, people responded to Trump’s cavalier “good luck” remarks.