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I think it will be in terms of just the costs associated with it, in terms of the scale and scope,
the California governor said President of the United States, Donald Trump, to his credit, was helpful in getting the Olympics to the United States of America, to get it down here in L.A. We thank him for that. This is an opportunity for him to shine, for this country to shine, for California and this community to shine,
NO WATER IN THE FIRE HYDRANTS, NO MONEY IN FEMA. THIS IS WHAT JOE BIDEN IS LEAVING ME. THANKS JOE!”
On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump blamed Newsom and President Joe Biden for the lack of water in fire hydrants, writing on Truth Social I have absolute faith in our community. I have faith in our leaders. I have the faith of our capacity to work together,
On Saturday, Newsom said ... when asked whether he has faith in Bass, who was absent from Los Angeles when the wildfires broke out as she returned home from a trip to Ghana We’re already talking to city leaders. We’re already talking to civic leaders. We’re already talking to business leaders, with nonprofits. We’re talking to labor leaders. We’re starting to organize how we can put together a collection of individuals on philanthropy for recovery. How we can organize the region,
Did it contribute in any way to our inability to fight the fire? Or were 99 mile-an-hour winds determinative and there was really no firefight that could’ve been more meaningful?”
Fire is spreading rapidly for 3 days — ZERO CONTAINMENT. Nobody has ever seen such failed numbers before! Gross incompetence by Gavin Newscum and Karen Bass.”
The president-elect last week also attacked Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, writing on Truth Social I’m blessed on behalf of 40 million Americans that happen to live in California that Joe Biden is president of the United States and did what he did immediately,
I invite you to come to California again — to meet with the Americans affected by these fires, see the devastation firsthand, and join me and others in thanking the heroic firefighters and first responders who are putting their lives on the line,
So he's been at this for years and years and years. It transcends the states, including, by the way, Georgia he threatened similarly. So that's his style. And we take it seriously to the extent that in the past it's taken a little bit more time [to get federal aid],
Mis- and disinformation I don't think advantages or aids any of us."
Gavin Newsom blasted President-elect Donald Trump's response to the California wildfires in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press" recorded Saturday, saying Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,
Trump wrote, using an insulting nickname for Newsom He's done it in Utah. He's done it in Michigan, did it in Puerto Rico. He did it to California back before I was even governor, in 2018,
Responding to Donald Trump's insults, we would spend another month,
Newsom told NBC News' Jacob Soboroff I mean, you're governor of California
When asked if the buck stops with him, Newsom replied I want to make sure when someone rebuilds that they have their old property tax assessments and that they're not increased,
And we’re pre-positioning not just here in the theatre, those existing five-plus fires, but now broadening that to a number of other counties and moving farther south with some of those resources in anticipation we could see some flare-ups in new places, new starts,
This is what friends do” as two aircraft carrying crews, as well as humanitarian aid landed in Los Angeles on Saturday (11 January).
It‘s made up. It's delusional... And it's reinforced over and over and over within the right wing. And so it's become gospel. And it's so profoundly ignorant. And yet he absolutely believes it”
Responding to Trump, Newsom said There goes his chances of ever becoming President of the US
But viewers and listeners have been left unimpressed, with comments on X including
