Trump Hands Out Hoagies and Reassurances in Storm-Battered Florida

[mystery-ak]

Trump Hands Out Hoagies and Reassurances in Storm-Battered Florida

By EMILY COCHRANE and MARK LANDLERSEPT. 14, 2017

NAPLES, Fla. — President Trump traveled to Florida on Thursday to take part in what has quickly become a familiar tableau for him: the windbreaker-clad commander-in-chief, surveying hurricane devastation, bucking up local officials, and alighting from his helicopter to distribute food and handshakes.

This time, it was Naples, the Gulf Coast town of multimillion-dollar seafront villas and inland mobile-home parks that was torn asunder by Hurricane Irma. Mr. Trump stopped at one of the latter, where an excavator was removing the twisted remains of a mobile home.

“Don’t forget to take one,” the president said to a friendly crowd as he stood behind a silver tin of hoagies, part of a staging area with food and water for resident and rescue workers. “Here’s a nice one!”

Mr. Trump arrived in Naples after he was briefed in nearby Fort Myers on the recovery operation by federal emergency management and Florida officials, including Senator Marco Rubio, Gov. Rick Scott, and Pam Bondi, the state attorney general.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/us/politics/trump-visits-florida-to-assess-hurricane-irma-damage.html?mcubz=1

[mystery-ak]

Not mentioned in this article but the President bought all the food he handed out.

[RoosGirl]

Dagnabit, they're called "subs" in Florida. 

Nice of him to provide a meal.

[The_Reader_David]

Dagnabit, they're called "subs" in Florida. 

Nice of him to provide a meal.

Yeah, I was wondering about that.  Florida's a bit far from Philly, the center of hoagie-dom, and I figured it would either be subs or po'boys, depending on what part of Florida one was in, but definitely not hoagies.

[Silver Pines]

Trump really does look as if he enjoys being down there and helping out.  He comes across as genuine.