Trump announces plans to visit Helene-ravaged NC, wildfire areas in CA
During a press availability on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced he would be visiting North Carolina and California in the coming days.
Trump made implicit reference to areas of the Smokies decimated by Hurricane Helene, claiming Democrats had abandoned the Tarheel State in the wake of the historic storm that affected a large swath of the U.S. and particularly the area from Damascus, Va., to Augusta, Ga.
Trump also appeared to suggest Democrats and Democratic policy failures in the lead-up to the Los Angeles wildfires have left the party “dead, politically” in California.
“What they’ve done is destroyed [Los Angeles],” he said, speaking of sprinklers without water and hydrants without proper water or pressure.
He said California’s leaders either have “a death wish [or] they are stupid, or there’s something else going on.”
When he travels to California, he may notably encounter one of his longtime political foes, Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is now the state’s junior senator.
Posted by Charles Creitz
