"Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering," Trump said.
"What is your death count?" Trump asked the Puerto Rican governor, Ricardo Rosselló.
"Sixteen, certified," he replied.
"Sixteen people certified. Sixteen people versus in the thousands," Trump said, comparing it to Katrina.
"You can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together. Sixteen versus literally thousands of people. You can be very proud. Everybody around this table and everybody watching can really be very proud of what's been taking place in Puerto Rico."