No Images? Click here President Donald Trump spent his weekend tweeting about sports while U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico continued to deal with “apocalyptic” conditions in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.Trump kicked off his sports tweets Saturday by saying he wouldn’t allow the NBA’s Golden State Warriors to visit the White House after player Stephen Curry said he didn’t want to go.That afternoon, Trump started a tirade against athletes kneeling or sitting during the national anthem, a protest started last year by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who refused to stand during the anthem to protest oppression and police brutality against black people.Trump tweeted about sports 17 times between Saturday and Monday morning. He didn’t tweet once about Puerto Rico, where citizens have been largely without power, water or means of communication since Maria hit Wednesday as a Category 5 hurricane.WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?GOP senators say they're not giving up on an Obamacare repeal vote this week. But they appear to be losing support, with no easy way to get it back.Puerto Ricans describe "horror in the streets" after Hurricane Maria. As many as 70,000 American lives are at risk if the territory’s Guajataca dam breaks.Rights groups are decrying Trump's new travel ban, arguing "this is still a Muslim ban." “President Trump’s original sin of targeting Muslims cannot be cured by throwing other countries onto his enemies list," said the executive director of the ACLU.ICYMI
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