California Governor Gavin Newsom invites Donald Trump to witness the devastation of the Firestorm: “We must not politicize human tragedy.”
Like Los Angeles forest fire continues to cause devastation across the state, Gov Gavin Newsom invited President-elect Donald Trumpwho has oppose the handling of the crisis without offering reasonable alternatives, to witness the growing devastation for yourself.
In a letter signed “With respect and an open hand” that Newsom posted on social media Friday, the governor gave Trump the opportunity to walk around the state, thanking first responders and “meet the Americans affected by these fires.”
“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread misinformation from the margins,” Newsom wrote, pointing out how the former and future president responded Responding to forest fires last week. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans – displaced from their homes and fearful for the future – deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a speedy recovery and rebuilding.”
Newsom’s olive branch appears as Trump has call Governor “incompetent” speak he should resign and keep calling him “Newscum” on Truth Social. On Wednesday, when the neighborhoods are even burn and tens of thousands of Angelenos were told to evacuate without notice, Trump wrote that the fire “may go down, dollar for dollar, as the worst fire in our Country’s History.” He also expressed concern about “whether insurance companies will have enough money to pay for this disaster.”
Up to nowThe fire has killed at least 11 people and burned more than 37,000 acres, an area larger than San Francisco, according to reports from the US Department of State. Washington Post based on Cal Fire. The fire destroyed more than 12,000 structures and displaced tens of thousands of people.
EQUAL Vanity fair‘S Eric Lutz wrote this week, “MAGA attacks on Democrats are shameless and filled with blatant lies, including Trump suggesting FEMA money to aid Los Angeles instead was spent by Joe Biden on the ‘Green New Hoax,’ referring to the Green New Deal that was never actually enacted.”
The president-elect’s response mimicked the one he had replied to other environmental crises throughout his political career. According to Stephanie Grishamserved as White House press secretary under Trump from 2019 to 2020 and continued donate Vice president Kamala Harris2024 campaign of, one of the first question Trump will ask if a state needs disaster aid while he is in office, “Are they my people?”
When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, leading to thousands of deathsTrump reportedly delayed disaster aid and diverted funding from FEMA to pay for efforts to return undocumented migrants to Mexico. One year 2021 report by the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Housing found that the Trump administration withheld more than $20 billion in aid to Puerto Rico after the storm devastated the island. Instead of providing this cash, he selected threw tissues into the crowd at a church in San Juan.
