Thread by @neal_katyal

This is a thread on what Sarah Sanders says below (where she tweets a picture of Hamilton) and Trump’s tweet today about “Dems in Puerto Rico” & his FOX comments this weekend. Its despicable, it says so much about the President.

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1084492974325673985

1. Trump/Sanders can play politics calling it "partying on the beach" but it was a FUNDRAISER for Puerto Rico. I just came back from it. It was a beautiful, mind opening thing to do -- bringing thousands of people to the Island to see the play and experience all PR has to offer.

2. It is downright perverse that our paper-towel President is attacking this at the very same time as he is trying to take the few disaster dollars left for Puerto Rico and allocate it to his silly wall.

3. @washingtonpost had it right on front page “1 of the most extraordinary events in the history of the nation’s performing arts. Here was a show arriving not merely to entertain,but also to serve a humanitarian mission:raising money for the relief effort” washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

4. Whatever Trump wants to say about a vacation on the beach, at least the Dems who go to Puerto Rico are spending their dollars in AMERICA (unlike, say, his Treasury Secretary who spent his break in another country at his private gated resort).
vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/m…

5. There's also something just so small about Trump. Most Presidents find moments of grace to support and nurture the arts. Here we have a bonafide work of genius(as no less than Dick Cheney has acknowledged)+it is about our Founding Fathers, of all things
thehill.com/blogs/in-the-k…

6. Yet Trump can't bring himself to even show a moment of grace even for that work, and even when that work is performed for the noblest of causes.

7. The proof is in the pudding. @Lin_Manuel and @hamiltonmusical are smashing successes. People of all political persuasions, races, beliefs flock to it. #hamiltonpr is no different, in that respect.

nytimes.com/2016/06/12/the…

8. But #hamiltonpr is different – very different – because of where it is situated. At a tiny part of America that most of us forget, and that really needs us.

That's the point.

nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/…

9. In short, this is a story about the best of America, being criticized by the worst. END