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			<p>Donald Trump arrived in Texas, gave a briefing at a fire station, and told Texans, &#8220;This is a really special place and a special state.&#8221;</p>
<p>So far, so relatively normal. Straight afterwards, however, several hundred Trump supporters arrived and the US president proceeded to give them a speech that seemed curiously indifferent to the plight of the tens of thousands of people made homeless by Hurricane Harvey, which has caused record-breaking rain and catastrophic flooding.</p>
<p>Presidential events are often reported on by one journalist picked from among the White House correspondents, whose &#8220;pool report&#8221; is then shared among the rest of the press corps. Normally, language in pool reports is brisk, factual, and dispassionate. For this one the pool reporter happened to be from a Texas paper, the Dallas Morning News, and what they heard was apparently enough to prompt a remarkable shift from normal pool custom.</p>
<blockquote><p>After the briefing, Trump did an impromptu rally type speech in front of a few hundred Trump supporters who somehow managed to know exactly where the president was doing the briefing.</p>
<p>He stood on a raised platform of some type. Couldn&#8217;t tell if it was a step ladder or not. But he was not on a truck. Spoke into a microphone.</p>
<p>&#8220;I love you, you are special, we&#8217;re here to take care of you. It&#8217;s going well.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What a crowd, what a turnout.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reporters heard no mention of the dead, dying or displaced Texans and no expression of sympathy for them. The message was services are coming and Texans will be OK.</p>
<p>&#8220;Texas can handle anything,&#8221; POTUS said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are going to get you back and operating immediately,&#8221; he told the crowd (this contradicts the &#8220;Long haul&#8221; Sen. John Cornyn has publicly discussed and the caveat from FEMA administrator long moments earlier that it&#8217;s going to be a slow process).</p></blockquote>
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