US President Donald Trump has gone on Twitter to suggest that cruise ships could help Bahamians hit by Hurricane Dorian.
He also cited the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) who were asked “to move people in the badly hit sections of the Bahamas to other sections of the Bahamas that were not hit.”
Most netizens quipped at Trump’s remarks, recalling that cruise ship companies including Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., and Norwegian Cruise Line Holding Ltd. have already been involved in relief efforts in the Bahamas where the death toll climbed to 43 on Saturday.
“How about flying people to the famous Trump Doral hotel. You have so many empty rooms there,” one user tweeted while another warned that President Trump “can never be trusted.”
Some others, however, signalled their fully-fledged support for Trump’s actions, thanking him for “all of his concern.”
The tweets come amid public uproar over Trump’s drive to stick to his story that Alabama could be among the states hit by Hurricane Dorian, despite the fact that this has already been refuted by the National Weather Service’s Twitter account.