White House addresses FEMA acting director's 'jokes' about hurricane season

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Source: ABC News

Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Director David Richardson told staff in an all-hands meeting that he was unaware hurricane season had started, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

Hurricane season started on Sunday, June 1, and goes through Nov. 30. It is unclear if Richardson, who has led the agency since mid-May, was joking in the Monday meeting, but a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson argued he was.

When asked by reporters Tuesday during a White House press briefing whether President Donald Trump is "still comfortable" with Richardson following his remarks, press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed concerns and said FEMA is taking hurricane season "seriously, contrary to some of the reporting we have seen based on jokes that were made and leaks from meetings."

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The DHS spokesperson denied FEMA is unprepared, saying, "Despite meanspirited attempts to falsely frame a joke as policy, there is no uncertainty about what FEMA will be doing this Hurricane Season."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/femas-acting-director-unaware-hurricane-season-started-white/story?id=122455820

[BOSSHOG]

1. My wife and I survived Katrina

Fuck Your Joke. And thanks for going on record about your competence. Although you wrote it in conservative value ambiguity. “There is no uncertainty about what FEMA will be doing.”

[Lovie777]

2. Oh that was a joke?....

not funny.

[Deuxcents]

3. Stupidity is a joke to MAGA..painful for the rest of us

[ancianita]

4. The fact that FEMA has ALREADY failed at disaster relief means that this is more felon distraction theater.

Without even referring to govt reports, Sen Hawley's begging for relief is sufficient proof.

[Rebl2]

8. As well as

Arkansas governor. Nope, no money for your disaster’s.

[patphil]

5. The joke isn't that Richardson doesn't know when hurricane season starts.

Richardson himself is the joke.
It would be comical if it wasn't so tragic.

He's just another unqualified, incompetent person acting as the head of an agency he knows nothing about.

[Initech]

6. It's never their fault. It's always someone else's. Or it didn't happen. Or it was a false flag.

[Marcuse]

7. Jokes generally have a punch line.

[quaint]

9. Davy, you're doing a heck of a job.

[Paladin]

10. "Joke" my ass. (nt)