CNN Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin slammed Donald Trump for calling the government’s handling Puerto Rico an “unsung success,” saying the president doesn’t really value the lives of the near 3,000 people who died last year because of Hurricane Maria.

As Toobin spoke to his colleagues on New Day about the president’s recent comments, he suggested Trump would never have called his storm crisis response an “unsung success” if that many white people died in Texas or Florida as a result of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

“Isn’t the story that these people who died – apparently thousands of them in Puerto Rico, 3,000 as you point out – they’re not white people, and they don’t count to Donald Trump as much as the deaths of white people. You hate to say that about someone, but look at his record. Isn’t that indicative of who he is and what he stands for?”

Alisyn Camerota didn’t want to go that far, but she did make a note that “we certainly know that they didn’t have the apparatus in place when they knew that hurricane was coming and you have to ask why.”

John Berman said “[Trump] wouldn’t acknowledge a failure no matter what. I don’t think it’s in his DNA to acknowledge weakness or failure.”

In his very latest remarks, Trump attacked San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz as “totally incompetent” for criticizing the federal government’s recovery effort for Puerto Rico.

Watch above, via CNN.

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