{"id":47390,"date":"2017-10-14T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=47390"},"modified":"2017-10-14T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T05:26:00","slug":"trump-says-he-spoke-to-us-virgin-islands-president-which-is-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-says-he-spoke-to-us-virgin-islands-president-which-is-him.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he spoke to US Virgin Islands president &#8212; which is him"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump says he spoke to US Virgin Islands president &#8212; which is him<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">President Donald Trump accidentally referred to the US Virgin Islands&#8217; governor as their President during a speech Friday &#8212; even though he is technically their President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;I will tell you I left Texas and I left Florida and I left Louisiana and I went to Puerto Rico and I met with the President of the Virgin Islands,&#8221; he told the audience of the Values Voter Summit in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;We are one nation and we all hurt together, we hope together and we heal together,&#8221; he said, later adding, &#8220;The Virgin Islands and the President of the Virgin Islands, these are people that are incredible people, they suffered gravely and we&#8217;re be there, we&#8217;re going to be there, we have really, it is not even a question of a choice.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump appeared to be referring to Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp, instead of the &#8220;President&#8221; who is Trump himself. The Virgin Islands is a US territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The White House did not immediately respond to CNN&#8217;s request for comment. But in the official White House transcript after the speech, his reference to Mapp as President was corrected to &#8220;governor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He was referring to how the US Virgin Islands was hit first by Hurricane Irma, then Hurricane Maria, which ravaged the island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/13\/politics\/virgin-islands-president-donald-trump\/index.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-says-he-spoke-to-us-virgin-islands-president-which-is-him.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says he spoke to US Virgin Islands president &#8212; which is him President Donald Trump accidentally referred to the US Virgin Islands&#8217; governor as their President during a speech Friday &#8212; even though he is technically their President. &#8220;I will tell you I left Texas and I left Florida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[77477],"class_list":["post-47390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-trump-says-he-spoke-to-us-virgin-islands-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}