“It is clear that Antigua and Barbuda has stood up to a mighty test,” he wrote in the statement posted to Facebook.
But he revised his opinion after taking a helicopter ride to survey the damage to Barbuda, which is just 30 miles north of Antigua.
“I never contemplated any possibility that you could have such a contrast,” he said of the relative destruction.
Really stupid of him to say what he said earlier today before anyone was even able to contact the island he wasn't on.