"What a crowd, what a turnout," President Trump said to residents of Corpus Christi, Tex., on Aug. 29, while touring the damage from Hurricane Harvey. (The Washington Post)Twenty-five years ago almost to the day, President George H.W. “We are here for you,” he said, “and we will not forget.”Little of that high-minded rhetoric was on display when President Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to discuss the devastation from Hurricane Harvey. Trump, who ran on a promise of being a different kind of president, once again kept that promise. “There was something missing from what President Trump said, that’s the empathy for the people who suffer,” former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer said on Fox News Tuesday.

Source: Washington Post August 30, 2017 09:49 UTC