Ricardo Rossello

Wanda Vasquez is seen by many as being too close to the previous governor, who announced he would step down on August 2.

Trump claimed to have "many Puerto Rican friends."

"Attacks on women, attacks on gays, attacks on the dead relatives of your own residents across your own island," Smith said to Ricardo Rosselló. "Is it even safe for you to continue to attempt to govern?"

The burglary comes as thousands continue to call for the governor's resignation after a string of sexist and homophobic text messages were leaked.

"You should not be wearing that in the United States of America," a man yelled at a Puerto Rican woman in an Illinois park, as she appealed for a nearby police officer's help to no avail.

"Nobody has mentioned at all anything Kushner is doing," a technology consultant in Puerto Rico said.

Hours earlier, Trump tweeted that the U.S. cannot keep FEMA on the island "forever"

Under the island's current status as a territory, residents are citizens, but they can't vote in presidential elections.