While Donald Trump is angry Truth Social – Share memes and baselessly blame California’s Democratic politicians for the devastating LA wildfires. Rep. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., is concerned that state disaster aid will be withheld to score political points.
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC. Meet the pressNewsom told NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff that he was worried about Trump canceling federal disaster aid that President Biden had promised California for the next six months. In fact, it’s a threat Trump has made and carried out many times in the past.
“He did it in Utah. He did it in Michigan, he did it in Puerto Rico. He did that in California even before I became governor in 2018. Then, when he found out that the people of Orange County voted for him, he decided to give them money,” Newsom said. “So he’s been doing this for years and years and years. That goes beyond states, including Georgia, which he similarly threatened, by the way. “That’s his style.”
Trump does not appear to have explicitly made such a threat following the Los Angeles wildfires, which killed at least 16 people and damaged at least 10,000 structures, according to officials. but trump have Over the past few days, local Democratic politicians have been blamed for the fire, including LA Mayor Karen Bass and Newsom. He called Newsom a “Newscum” and called him “incompetent.”
“One of the greatest and most beautiful parts of America is burning. It is a heap of ashes and Gavin Newscom should resign,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday. “This is all his fault!!!”
President Biden said Friday he “prays” the Trump administration will continue to provide assistance to California.
Newsom also said: Meet the press President Trump has not yet responded to an invitation sent to the president-elect last Friday to visit Los Angeles to meet Americans affected by the fires, see the devastation firsthand, and join me and others in thanking our heroic firefighters and first responders. I didn’t. These are people who are risking their lives.” According to a copy of the letter Newsom posted on X.
“I asked him to come out and take a look for himself. I want to do it with an open-handed spirit, not a clenched fist. He is the next president. I respect the office,” Newsom told Soboroff.
A Trump spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. mother jones On Sunday.
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance said: fox news sunday President Trump said he would like to visit California, but did not directly answer whether he would withhold federal aid to the state, saying only that “President Trump cares about all Americans.” “He is a president for all Americans, and I think he plans to do a much better job at FEMA and other federal responses and give us a lot more clues about what’s happening on the ground.”
Newsom also addressed Trump’s misleading comments about California’s water supply, saying: “I don’t think that misinformation and disinformation benefits or helps any of us. We will spend another month responding to Donald Trump’s insults. I know them very well. Any elected official he disagrees with, he knows them very well.”
Meanwhile, in a CNN interview, state of union On Sunday, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told Jake Tapper in response to a question about Trump’s attacks on Newsom: “We must ensure that they are never politicized. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or Republican. These types of weather events do not discriminate.”
“We have to make sure they never get politicized.”@FEMA_Deanne In response to concerns that a change in administration could jeopardize bushfire relief, it said: @jaketapper“This kind of weather phenomenon… “Don’t discriminate.”" It is based on political parties. pic.twitter.com/Du7mH8tFAH
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) January 12, 2025
With just over a week until Inauguration Day, it seems like we are getting a taste or reminder of what it will be like to live under President Trump. There are many petty insults and there are people who need government support the most. Forgotten.
