President-elect Donald Trump plans to visit California next week to view the aftermath of the devastating wildfires. This trip comes amidst escalating political clashes between Trump and California officials, particularly Governor Gavin Newsom.
President-elect Donald Trump will likely travel to California next week to view the aftermath of the devastating wildfires in greater Los Angeles, he told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview Saturday. “I will be, probably, at the end of the week,” Trump said, just two days before he’s set to be inaugurated for a second term. “I was going to go, actually yesterday,” the president-elect added, “but I thought it would be better if I went as president.
appearing to lean into a false conspiracy theory about the Federal Emergency Management Agency that he and other Republicans spread last year in the aftermath of multiple hurricanes in the South. In a Truth Social post later in the week, Trump even blamed “Gross incompetence by Gavin Newscum and Karen Bass” for the wildfire destruction.
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