Donald Trump lashed out at “incompetent” politicians on the bottom in California who’re coping with large, lethal wildfires, even because the president-elect has but to take up an invitation to survey the injury himself.
As of Monday, the catastrophe has killed no less than 24 folks and destroyed hundreds of houses, with one other spherical of utmost wind anticipated to convey extra destruction.
Trump has to this point not publicly responded to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) urging the incoming president to tour the devastation.
Newsom informed NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that he reached out to Trump “in the spirit of an open hand, not a closed fist.”
Nonetheless, as a substitute of heading to California, Trump renewed his assaults on native leaders on his Reality Social platform.
“The fires are still raging in L.A.,” he wrote Sunday morning. “The incompetent pols have no idea how to put them out.”
He added that the fires are “one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our Country.”
“They just can’t put out the fires. What’s wrong with them?” he continued.
Trump additionally reposted a meme depicting the Hollywood Hills ablaze, with the enduring “Hollywood” signal changed by the phrases “Trump Was Right.”
It was one among a collection of pro-Trump and anti-Democrat posts the Republican has shared to his 8.5 million followers in current days.
Trump has chimed in repeatedly from afar, calling on political foe Newsom, or “Newscum,” to resign.
A lot of his feedback have been deceptive.
Trump accused the governor of refusing to signal a “water restoration declaration” ― a doc that doesn’t exist, in accordance with fact-checkers.
“The governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need,” a press release from Newsom’s press workplace stated.
Trump additionally complained that there’s “no water for fire hydrants” ― one other false declare that needed to be debunked.
In a submit on Jan. 9, Trump took goal at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, President Joe Biden, the Federal Emergency Administration Company and so-called Inexperienced New Deal proposals to deal with local weather change, as he declared L.A. “a total wipeout!!!”
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In his letter to Trump, Newsom invited the president-elect to “see the devastation firsthand” in a go to the place he may thank first responders who’re “putting their lives on the line.”
