President Donald Trump presented remarks at an emergency fire meeting at Pacific Palisades, saying at a round table of local officials, said that he “had a good conference, a very positive conversation”, with California Governor Gavin Newsom when he arrived in Los Angeles earlier Friday, adding: “We have to work together to work really.”
The president said that he would sign an executive decree “to open pumps and valves in the north”, allowing water to flow from the North West Pacific to southern California in order to fight fires . Experts have already said CNN There is no link between the water battles in northern California and the dry fire terminals during the Los Angeles fires.
Trump also thought about the devastation he witnessed first -hand, saying to the participants of the round table: “We flew over some of the areas, and it’s a devastation – it’s incredible, it’s really An incineration, even some of the chimneys fell. ” He told journalists on Friday that the damage was “not even credible” during a walking visit to the Palisades district.
More about the visit: Trump and the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, briefly faced reconstruction efforts during the round table on Friday.
An owner in the room pressed the bass on the chronology of the body of army engineers allowing local residents to rebuild their houses.
At that time, the local owner said they wanted to erase the debris themselves to avoid a delay in reconstruction, encouraging Trump to agree.
“You have emergency powers, just like me, and I practice my emergency powers, you must also exercise them,” Trump told Bass. “I practiced them because I look, I mean, you have a very powerful emergency power, and you can do everything within 24 hours.”
“And if individuals want to eliminate their property, they can,” replied Bass.
Newsom and Trump: With the still burned fires, the timing and the winds of Santa Ana transformed the governor of California in the first case of testing For how Democrats and others that Trump perceive as political opponents manage relationships that tend to start with staff and little one, to cross disinformation and to rarely evolve.
The dynamics of Newsom-Trump is unique, not only because the ex-wife of the governor was engaged to the son of the president before she was nominated to be his ambassador to Greece, or because the governor was one The last defenders of Joe Biden, then a Big Booster from Kamala Harris. California has a particular grip on national political imagination, in particular for Republicans, such as a paragon of liberal values or the great example of a failing state.