Cameras captured the president engaging in a conversation with a hurricane victim, asking multiple questions and commending public officials in closing, but also telling another group of victims impacted by the storm to “have a good time.”

And the pool of reporters following the president described a pair of basketball-related exchanges. Trump asked a teenager if he played basketball and was going to the NBA. After handing out bags of rice at a church, Trump began shooting paper towels into the crowd — mimicking the motions of a jump shot.

In later remarks Tuesday — as the president handed out flashlights — Trump insisted Puerto Ricans don’t need flashlights, though much of the territory is still without power, as he acknowledged to reporters just minutes prior.