So you beautiful bastards. I'll be having a fantastic Thursday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it.

And the first thing we're going to talk about today, one of the most requested stories today is this most recent controversy around President Trump, a controversy that even has people he has endorsed disagreeing with him.

This morning, as you may have seen, Donald Trump tweeted, 3,000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit

Puerto Rico. When I left the island after the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths.

As time went by, it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really

large numbers like 3,000. This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible

when I was successfully raising billions of dollars

to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them on

to the list. Bad politics, I love Puerto Rico. So an allegation from the president of the United

States that Democrats made up a death count related to Puerto Rico. And all, and this is an incredibly

important note, without providing evidence to back up his claim. We're going to jump into those allegations, the numbers, and some of which we've actually covered on the show in the past in a moment.

But as far as why we got those tweets this morning, it came after criticism of his comments from Tuesday when he was asked what the administration had learned from Puerto Rico.

I think Puerto Rico was incredibly successful.

Puerto Rico was actually our toughest one of all

because it's an island, so you can't truck things onto it.

Everything's by boat.

A job that FEMA and law enforcement and everybody did,

working along with the governor in Puerto Rico, I think, was tremendous.

I think that Puerto Rico was an incredible unsung success. I think in a certain

way the best job we did was Puerto Rico, but nobody would understand that. I mean, it's harder to

understand. Trump also pointed to the issues of the government face when dealing with Maria,

including the fact that it was the second hurricane to hit the island that year, the logistical

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