It’s just spectacularly offensive.
From your link:
Those are real people: those who died, and those who loved them.
Here’s your problem: you think any of this applies to Trump. The facts are:
He is not a person who is loved.
He is not a person who loves.
He is not really a person.
And, lastly–and sadly,
He is not dead.
Without a doubt.
His fans will love his dismissal of the lives of Puerto Ricans (brown people! clearly worth less!) The question is, will all independents be similarly thrilled?
I’ve actually seen and heard such condemnations of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans. The common themes are: it’s their own fault, the US “should let their own government take care of it”, and–the biggie–it’s not fair that Trump has to deal with Puerto Rico because they’re all foreigners.
Two bits says these are people who don’t know Hawaii is a state, and who think that New Mexico is part of Mexico.
My favorite comment was: “Trump is a perfect representative of the people who voted for him.”
If he came over here to California after one of the wildfires, he’d tell us that at least we got some nice charcoal out of the deal.
Donald Trump genuinely believes that this is the way the world works: when a storm tosses a boat on to your property, that means that you get to keep the boat.
He really is a case of arrested development. If he believes that “finders keepers” is a thing, what are his views on cooties, stepping on cracks, and the tooth fairy?
Ask just about any seven-year-old, and he’ll be glad to tell you.
Either he thought it was finders keepers; or he thought he was being funny – just some light-hearted banter. He was wrong either way, of course. (The evidence against the second option is that Trump has never said anything funny in his life.)
It’s clearly just a stupid old-timer type of joke. I can imagine any of a number of folks I know making that same joke.
It’s Republican humor, it doesn’t require “funny”. It requires someone getting fucked over. In this case, the guy who lost his boat.
Also, the guy whose garden has been destroyed by a large boat and whatever efforts are required to remove it.
To be fair, it might count as salvage. 
Yeah, it’s actually a pretty funny joke if it is neighbors comparing storm damage. Both houses damaged, but one has a"free" boat.
Not really so much when it comes from someone who has influence over how the recovery goes.
Kind of what I thought. If I was helping a buddy clean up, I might, at some point jokingly say something like that.
Not something the CIC should say. But that pretty much goes for anything that comes out of his mouth.
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I’m guessing Trump is applying a lot of personal experience to this line of thought. Something like:
I’ve done stuff like that hundreds of times.
Nobody’s ever called the cops.
Of course, by definition if I do it it’s not a crime.
Ergo: nothing to see here.
Just like the thousands of boys (and girls) molested by priests didn’t call the cops. People DON’T call the cops. They’re mortified, embarrassed, and just want the whole thing to go away.