--- title: Hillary Clinton Criticizes Trump's Response to Puerto Rico description: Hillary Clinton has some advice for Trump's administration on how to deal with the devastation in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. canonical: https://time.com/4970478/hillary-clinton-criticizes-trump-puerto-rico-response/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-05T14:53:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:55:36.698Z og:title: Hillary Clinton Wants Trump to Stop Tweeting and Send the Navy to Puerto Rico og:description: "Find some time to tell the Navy to get down there and rescue people" og:url: https://time.com/4970478/hillary-clinton-criticizes-trump-puerto-rico-response/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9334bd4a58185590/6988e0a597cdff15d06b2b75/screen-shot-2017-10-05-at-10-28-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1179&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1179 og:image:height: 663 og:image:alt: The-Tonight-Show-Hillary-Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Wants Trump to Stop Tweeting and Send the Navy to Puerto Rico twitter:description: "Find some time to tell the Navy to get down there and rescue people" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9334bd4a58185590/6988e0a597cdff15d06b2b75/screen-shot-2017-10-05-at-10-28-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1179&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Wants Donald Trump to Stop Tweeting and Send the Navy to Puerto Rico > Sponsored content. 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Hillary Rodham Clinton is the FIRST woman to win a major party’s nomination for President of the United States._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 5, 2017 2:53 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 5, 2017 2:53 PM UTC [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4970484/hillary-clinton-miley-cyrus/) has some advice for [President Donald Trump’s](http://time.com/4968074/donald-trump-paper-towels-puerto-rico/) administration on how to deal with the devastation in [Puerto Rico](http://time.com/4968721/stephen-colbert-blasts-donald-trump-on-puerto-rico/). During a Wednesday appearance on _The Tonight Show_ to promote her memoir _What Happened_—an account of her [loss to Trump](http://time.com/4564004/hillary-clinton-concession-electoral-college-tie/) in the presidential election last November— Clinton criticized the current administration for what she saw as a delayed response to aiding the people of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. “What are the priorities? If three and a half million Americans — and Puerto Ricans are Americans, let’s make sure people remember that — if they aren’t the highest priority of your government in responding to such a terrible natural disaster, what are you people spending your time doing, right? Golfing, tweeting, watching cable TV? 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