President Trump says a lot of stuff about Puerto Rico, gets him in trouble.

Plus, craziness over at Google and John Kerry carrying out collusion with the Iranians.

We'll get to all of it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

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landfall very shortly, who is in the midst of what could be a decent news cycle, plus a crisis

that requires some presidential leadership. So naturally, the president took to Twitter to tweet

about Hurricane Maria, which happened like a year and a half ago, because that's what we do

around here. We just do stupid crap. Like on a routine basis, that's pretty much all we do.

So the media have decided to cover anew the death toll from Puerto Rico. And this is happening,

obviously, in the run-up to Hurricane Florence, which is set to make landfall in the next 48

hours or so. And the president of the United States is very angry watching the media cover the

death toll from Hurricane Maria, which was, of course, the major hurricane that hit Puerto Rico about a year and a half ago. And the media have been covering, particularly the Puerto Rican government's revised death toll, which now stands at 2,975. Now, you remember originally, the stated death toll was something like 6 to 18, and everybody said, well, that's way too low. That's not real. And then it turns out that it kept being revised upward and upward and upward. Well, President Trump decided that he needed to tweet about that. And this is just a foolish move on every level. First of all, if you want to discuss the level of the disaster response, discuss the level of the disaster response. If you want to talk about the vagary of the numbers of estimated dead, there's a way

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