Lin-Manuel Miranda slams Trump over attack on San Juan mayor

“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on Saturday lashed out at Donald Trump after the president attacked the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city on Twitter.

“You’re going straight to hell, @realDonaldTrump. No long lines for you,” Miranda said in a tweet. “Someone will say, ‘Right this way, sir.’ They’ll clear a path.”

Earlier in the morning, Trump had gone after San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz for her criticism of his administration’s inadequate recovery efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

“The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump,” The president said in a series of tweets. “Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.”

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San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz criticized the federal government’s response at a press conference on Friday.

“If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying. And you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy,” Cruz told reporters, according to NBC News.

“This is what we got last night. Four pallets of water, three pallets of meals, and 12 pallets of infant food — which, I gave them to the people of Comerio, where people are drinking off a creek,” she added.

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