no mention of the nearly 3,000 americans we now know died. he mentioned one puerto rican, the governor, and what a great job he supposedly thinks the president did. when talking about the american government's response to a natural disaster that caused a catastrophic loss of american lives, the president kind of created an alternative reality. >> the job that fema and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in puerto rico i think was tremendous. i think that puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. >> an unsung success. again, nearly 3,000 people died and the vast majority of those were people who died in the weeks and the months after the storm hit, dying because of a lack of access to medicine, electricity, attention, and care. until recently, the government refused to acknowledge that the death toll was far greater than the official death toll of some 64 people. and in the days immediately after the storm, the president downplayed the scope of what had