Puerto Ricans reacted harshly on Saturday to President Trump's tweets that leaders of the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean island "want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort."
Several Puerto Ricans contacted by CNN stood up for San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who apparently provoked the Trump tweet with a call for more aid, and many said the Puerto Rican community at home and abroad is already working together.
"I'm amazed that he has the gall to say Puerto Ricans expect everything to be done for them," said Griselmarie Alemar of Stratford, Connecticut. "They are working exhaustively to lift themselves up. We are citizens. We pay taxes. We serve in the military."
"It is a community effort," Evelyn Torres said at a fund-raising event in the Bronx. "It is a humanity effort."
Across all of the mainland US, various food and donation drives have been held throughout the past couple of weeks, hoping to get aid to those who need it.
"The Puerto Rican community," says Abner Breban of Atlanta, "has come together like never in the city of Atlanta." Breban has started a Facebook group called "Atlanta Levanta a Puerto Rico," which aims to help organizations in their efforts to collect, organize and distribute donations for the island.
Breban adds the movement is grassroots with everyone in the community finding roles and doing whatever is needed.
Speaking from San Juan, Renee Acosta said, "If he's not here, he shouldn't be criticizing the community efforts.
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