Extra Extra: Trump Thinks Hurricane Maria Response In Puerto Rico Was An 'Incredible Unsung Success'

Sept. 11, 2018, 5:10 p.m.

Because Nathan Lane & Andrea Martin are coming to Broadway, check out today's end-of-day links: Gawker resurrection, revisiting 'Burn After Reading,' Brooklyn trash mountain, why is college so expensive, and doggo gets massage.

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  • Here's what Donald Trump had to say about his administration's response to Hurricane Maria, which killed nearly 3,000 people in Puerto Rico: "I actually think it was one of the best jobs that's ever been done...I think Puerto Rico was an incredible unsung success."
  • Alien hunters at SETI say they have detected more unusual radio signals from a galaxy three billion light years away.
  • Vulture took a look back at the eerily prescient Coen Brothers' film Burn After Reading.
  • A trash mountain outside a Brooklyn pharmacy includes bags of prescription pills.
  • If you need to vent, you could do worse than visiting a NYC rage room.
  • Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph remain very, very good at impressions.
  • The Atlantic asks: why is college so goddamn expensive in America?
  • Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin are coming to Broadway in Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, which is, unsurprisingly, a comedic sequel to Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.
  • Gawker will reportedly be relaunched in 2019.
  • Brooklyn College abruptly shuttered its Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts and ended the Brooklyn College Presents performance series last week, firing all of its full-time staff.
  • And finally, who else could go for a massage right about now?