President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration was “prepared to move” on sending humanitarian aid to Jamaica, amid the devastation wrought there by Hurricane Melissa.
“On a humanitarian basis, we have to,” Trump told reporters while on his trip to Asia. “We’re watching it closely, and we’re prepared to move, but you know, it’s doing tremendous damages as we speak.”
“I’ve never seen, I guess, it can get that high, but I’ve never seen it,” Trump added. “And it’s literally just, you know, knocking down everything in front of it. It’s, it’s a stage five, I guess. And you don’t see stage five, you don’t see five, you see fours and threes. But this is a five early on, meaning it gets worse.”
-ABC News’ Lalee Ibssa
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