José Andrés to CBS: ‘I Failed’ in Puerto Rico | Eater DC

"I believe my planned restaurant inside the Trump International Hotel in D.C. could have been the ticket to do more for Hurricane Maria victims: even though I prepared three million meals over three months, I feel I "failed" Puerto Ricans because I was only able to do 120,000 to 250,000 meals a day. I pulled out of the plans in mid-2015 after Trump's inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants, and I wish I had been able to look him in the eyes over dinner in his hotel and tell him we were failing Puerto Rico and ask for the power to help — because delays in getting ample food, water, blue tarps, and generators meant people maybe died, which is why my NGO, World Central Kitchen, failed." - Tierney Plumb