Paul Ryan says hurricane relief efforts show Trump's 'tremendous compassion'

published 7 October 2017

The Trump administration's disaster relief efforts demonstrate President Trump's "tremendous compassion," House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in an interview with MSNBC's Hugh Hewitt that taped Thursday and aired Saturday morning.

"I talk to him about these things. He has tremendous compassion," Ryan said. "He is flying to these emergencies as soon as he can without jeopardizing responses. And I think the fact that he's going and stopping what he's doing and focusing on these things ... shows that the people who are suffering from these tragedies are on his mind from the center." Other assessments of Trump's apparently delayed response to Hurricane Maria's decimation of Puerto Rico have not been so positive.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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