<!DOCTYPE html><html class="no-js"><head><meta content="IE=edge,chrome=1" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"><meta charset="utf-8"><meta content="text/html" http-equiv="Content-Type"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0"><script type="text/javascript" async="false">(function(win, doc) {var bannerElement;win.enableSmartBannerTracking = false;if (typeof navigator.userAgent === 'string' && navigator.userAgent.search(/(iPhone|iPad|iPod);/) !== -1 &&typeof doc.cookie === 'string' && doc.cookie.search(/(^|;)\s*CNNtosAgreed=[^;]+/) !== -1) {bannerElement = doc.createElement('meta');win.enableSmartBannerTracking = true;bannerElement.name = "apple-itunes-app";bannerElement.content = "app-id=331786748";doc.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(bannerElement);}}(window, document));</script><link href="/favicon.ie9.ico" rel="Shortcut Icon" type="image/x-icon"/><link href="//cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/misc/apple-touch-icon.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" type="image/png"/><!--[if lte IE 9]><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=/2.65.0/static/unsupp.html" /><![endif]--><!--[if gt IE 9><!--><!--<![endif]--><title>Axelrod: Trump fails his consoler-in-chief moment on Hurricane Harvey - CNN</title><meta content="opinions" name="section"><meta name="referrer" content="unsafe-url"><meta content="2017-08-29T23:28:41Z" property="og:pubdate"><meta content="2017-08-29T23:28:41Z" name="pubdate"><meta content="2017-08-30T18:40:36Z" name="lastmod"><meta content="https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/29/opinions/trump-fails-consoler-in-chief-moment-axelrod/index.html" property="og:url"><meta content="David Axelrod, CNN Senior Political Commentator" name="author"><meta content="Axelrod: Trump fails his consoler-in-chief moment" property="og:title"><meta content="Axelrod: Trump fails his consoler-in-chief moment" name="twitter:title"><meta content=" At Harvey briefing, Trump praised his team--and by extension, himself--but had not a word for victims. 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left out victims</li><li class="el__storyhighlights__item el__storyhighlights--normal">He says this was Trump's first major test as consoler-in-chief. We saw another dispiriting display of obtuse self-puffery</li></ul></div><div class="ad ad--epic" data-ad-text="show"><div id="ad_ns_btf_01" class="ad-ad_ns_btf_01 ad-refresh-default"></div></div></div></div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--editorial-note"><p class="zn-body__paragraph"><q class="el-editorial-note">David Axelrod is a CNN commentator and host of the podcast "<a href="http://podcast.cnn.com/explore/AxeFiles">The Axe Files</a>," now a regularly featured show on CNN. He was senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.</q></p></div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph"><p class="zn-body__paragraph speakable"><cite class="el-editorial-source"> (CNN)</cite><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei" target="_blank">Article Two</a> of the Constitution spells out the official duties of the presidency but not all its responsibilities. One of the essential, unwritten roles of the president has been to act as the consoler-in-chief in moments of crisis and loss, offering support and encouragement to fellow citizens on behalf of a concerned nation.  </p></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable">Reagan after the Challenger explosion; George W. Bush after 9/11; Clinton in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing and Obama after Charleston.   </div><div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable">Hurricane Harvey was Donald Trump's first major test in that role.  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class="el__storyelement__header">Trump vows storm recovery 'better than ever before'</span> <span class="el__storyelement__gray">02:29</span></div></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph">It appears at this juncture that the administration is working well with state authorities to deal with the crisis, at least as much as Harvey's magnitude allows. Yet, there is another demand the President completely missed.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph">Startlingly, he did not utter one syllable about those who have lost their lives, their homes or businesses in the floods that are still swelling over southeast Texas, overwhelming the heroic first responders and volunteers who are straining to meet its demands.  He had no solace for the tens of thousands of evacuees, some of whom were separated from their families in the storm and are now warehoused in arenas, left to wonder what comes next.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph">Donald Trump swept into Corpus Christi on Air Force One. Never missing an opportunity to sell, he alighted with his trademarked USA cap atop his thatched dome. It was clear he had come to take a bow, not to offer sympathy for the victims or hope to the dispossessed.</div><div class="el__embedded el__embedded--standard"><div class="el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed"><div class="el__article--teaseimage"><a href="/2017/08/29/opinions/dutch-america-storms-opinion-ghitis/index.html" ><img class="media__image media__image--responsive" alt="Holland has solved this problem; why can&amp;#39;t the US?" data-src-mini="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170828094849-08-harvey-0828-small-169.jpg" data-src-xsmall="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170828094849-08-harvey-0828-medium-plus-169.jpg" data-src-small="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170828094849-08-harvey-0828-large-169.jpg" data-src-medium="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170828094849-08-harvey-0828-exlarge-169.jpg" data-src-large="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170828094849-08-harvey-0828-super-169.jpg" data-src-full16x9="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170828094849-08-harvey-0828-full-169.jpg" data-src-mini1x1="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170828094849-08-harvey-0828-small-11.jpg"  data-demand-load="not-loaded" data-eq-pts="mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAJAJEAAAAAAP///////wAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAQAAkAAAIKlI+py+0Po5yUFQA7"><div class="img__preloader"></div><noscript><img alt="Holland has solved this problem; why can&amp;#39;t the US?" class="media__image" src="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170828094849-08-harvey-0828-large-169.jpg"></noscript></a></div><div class="media__caption el__storyelement__title"><span class="el__storyelement__header"><a href="/2017/08/29/opinions/dutch-america-storms-opinion-ghitis/index.html">Holland has solved this problem; why can&#39;t the US?</a></span></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph">For the ex-reality show star, the scene on TV is everything, and he apparently thought this exercise in praise-claiming amid the misery played "presidential." </div><div class="zn-body__paragraph">Still, we have witnessed over the past few days many scenes of everyday people, risking their own lives to save their neighbors. 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