Trump: US a ‘bit lucky’ Irma veered from original course
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Sunday that “we may have been a little bit lucky” after Hurricane Irma veered from its original course and headed along Florida’s west coast, instead of east. He said that path might be less destructive.
He said Irma will “cost a lot of money” but that he’s most concerned at this point with saving lives.
Trump commented hours after the nearly 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore early Sunday in the Florida Keys, made landfall on Marco Island on the state’s west coast and was barrelling toward Tampa, which hasn’t suffered a direct hit from a major hurricane in nearly 100 years.
He also spoke before state and local officials had begun to assess the damage.