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 invite to survey the harm himself.
As of Monday, the catastrophe has killed a minimum of 24 folks and destroyed hundreds of properties, with one other spherical of maximum wind anticipated to convey extra destruction.
Trump has up to now not publicly responded to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) urging the incoming president to tour the devastation.
Newsom instructed NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that he reached out to Trump “within the spirit of an open hand, not a closed fist.”
Nonetheless, as an alternative of heading to California, Trump renewed his assaults on native leaders on his Reality Social platform.
“The fires are nonetheless raging in L.A.,” he wrote Sunday morning. “The incompetent pols do not know put them out.”
He added that the fires are “one of many worst catastrophes within the historical past of our Nation.”
“They only can’t put out the fires. What’s fallacious with them?” he continued.
Trump additionally reposted a meme depicting the Hollywood Hills ablaze, with the long-lasting “Hollywood” signal changed by the phrases “Trump Was Proper.”
It was one in every of a collection of pro-Trump and anti-Democrat posts the Republican has shared to his 8.5 million followers in latest days.
Trump has chimed in repeatedly from afar, calling on political foe Newsom, or “Newscum,” to resign.
Lots 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 response to fact-checkers.
“The governor is concentrated on defending folks, not enjoying politics, and ensuring firefighters have all of the sources they want,” a press release from Newsom’s press workplace stated.
Trump additionally complained that there’s “no water for hearth hydrants” ― one other false declare that needed to be debunked.
In a publish on Jan. 9, Trump took purpose at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, President Joe Biden, the Federal Emergency Administration Company and so-called Inexperienced New Deal proposals to handle local weather change, as he declared L.A. “a complete 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 might thank first responders who’re “placing their lives on the road.”