Shortly after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma tore through Texas and Florida, a third, less media-savvy storm named Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, knocking out power to the entire island, decimating the island’s food supply, and leaving “apocalyptic” devastation and at least 10 deaths in its wake. At one of the few hospitals with a working generator, a doctor told reporters yesterday that they were running out of fuel and were two to three days away from running out of medicine and medical supplies. It is, in other words, the sort of epic disaster zone that the president of the United States—of which Puerto Rico is a part—might be expected to visit, or at least tweet about. After all, Donald Trump visited both Texas and Florida, and spent days raising awareness online about the recovery efforts in both states. Sure, at times the president’s attempts at sympathy were a bit weird, like when he hailed the size of the crowd that showed up to greet him in Corpus Christi, but at least it was something.

Puerto Rico, despite being a U.S. territory filled with millions of American citizens, received no such sympathy until Monday night, when, after six days of tweeting threats at North Korea and complaining about uppity football players, Trump finally turned his attention to the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean. It was not exactly empathetic:

Yes, when Trump briefly paused his multi-day tirade against African-American football players protesting racial inequality, his first instinct was to blame Puerto Rico’s pre-existing problems with infrastructure and to remind the people of the disaster-stricken island that they owe billions to Wall Street—debts, he suggested ominously, that “must be dealt with.”

Trump, of course, is referring to the debt crisis on the island, which has basically been in a recession since 2007 and currently owes creditors roughly $74 billion. The financial crisis hit Puerto Rico particularly hard, driving the poverty rate up to 46 percent and unemployment to more than double the national average at 11.7 percent. After being sued by creditors last spring, in May 2017, Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy in “the nation’s largest municipal insolvency,” forcing the government to sharply cut spending and increase tax revenue.

Trump should know a thing or two about bankruptcy, having declared it four times, and also about being involved in litigation with banks, which is also a Trump speciality. Yet on Monday, the president seemed more interested in blaming Puerto Rico for being hit by a hurricane than for explaining how his administration will aid the island’s recovery. Perhaps he needed some additional reminders that Puerto Ricans are Americans?

On Tuesday morning, in between tweets about N.F.L ratings being “way down” and loving all the “booing” for the players who kneeled during the National Anthem, Trump offered a single shoutout to Puerto Rico, which managed to be about how great a job FEMA is doing. Heckuva job, Donny.