President Donald Trump went to North Carolina before proceeding to California on Friday to others affected through hurricanes and wildfires.
The visits are Trump’s first trips outside of Washington, DC, since taking office in his second term as president.
Trump has heavily criticized California Governor Gavin Newsom and other officials for the response to the wildfires that caused widespread devastation this month.
However, whilst the pair met on the Tarmac in California, Trump struck a more positive note, saying: “I appreciate that the governor comes out and meets me” “
He pledged to “get it fixed,” adding: “The way you get it completed is to work together with the governor of the state, and we’re going to get it completed. They’re going to need a lot of federal help.”
Trump is one of those who transmit many false or deceptive statements about forest fires in Los Angeles, many of whom have viral after Elon Musk republished them on their social media platform X.
Among the claims, Newsom refused to supply water from the northern component of the state to combat fires to a kind of extinction in danger of extinction called Lelt.
Newsom said there is no link between fish and fireplace and that it had not maintained the water in northern California to combat chimneys in the south of the state.
In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Trump threatened to withhold aid to California and continued blaming the state leadership’s water policies for worsening the fires.
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“I don’t think we should give California anything until they let the water run down,” Trump said in an interview Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
Since they exploded, the chimneys have killed another 28 people and have broken or destroyed approximately 16,000 structures, the government said. The RAW are planned for the region on the weekend, but a giant component in southern California remains under excessive chimney warning.
Trump also accused Biden Management of not doing enough west of North Carolina in recovery efforts since Hurricane Helene ripped out the region in September.
Biden administration has ruled out accusations as erroneous information.
Unlike his comments regarding assisting others affected through fires in California, Trump promised before the election that he would cut administrative formalities and provide federal supplies in rebuilding homes devastated by Hurricane Helene.
But after arriving in North Carolina, Trump questioned the federal government’s role in the disaster emergency.
“I’ll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, or maybe getting rid of FEMA,” Trump told reporters, referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
He added that he would like to see states “take care of disasters” and that he would review “the whole concept” of FEMA.
“Let the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen,” Trump told reporters.
KB/SMS (Reuters, AP, AFP)