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WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump slammed Los Angeles officials’ handling of the wildfires Sunday, calling them “incompetent” and questioning wherefore they person not yet contained the blaze.
“The fires are inactive raging successful L.A,” Trump wrote connected Truth Social. “The incompetent pols person nary thought however to enactment them out.”
“Thousands of magnificent houses are gone, and galore much volition soon beryllium lost. There is decease each implicit the place. This is 1 of the worst catastrophes successful the past of our Country. They conscionable can’t enactment retired the fires. What’s incorrect with them?” helium concluded.
As Los Angeles continues to burn, California politicians person travel nether crisp disapproval by the soon-to-be 47th president, specifically for the state’s h2o management.
Trump has hurled blasted astatine Governor Gavin Newsom (D) – whom helium has feuded with for years – for the wildfire crisis, proclaiming helium should resign. In a station connected his societal media tract earlier successful the week, Trump wrote that Newsom “refused to motion the h2o restoration declaration enactment earlier him that would person allowed millions of gallons of water” to areas present burning, alleging helium prioritized “small fish” implicit California residents.
Newsom swiped backmost Saturday, insisting Trump’s accusations were “made up” and “delusional.”
“The Delta smelt someway being culpable of someway starring to immoderate of the challenges that we look down here… it’s made up, it’s delusional,” Newsom said during an interview connected “Pod Save America”.
“It’s truthful profoundly ignorant and yet [Trump] perfectly believes it,” Newsom continued. “It’s not an ignorance connected his part, it’s benignant of an indelible misinformation that helium benignant of manifested a falsehood and helium decided to bring it into this crisis, successful a profoundly demeaning and damaging way.”
The governor’s bureau has since launched a website to combat “misinformation and disinformation” being dispersed astir the disaster.
Newsom sent a missive to Trump dated Friday – and publically posted to his X relationship – inviting the president-elect to survey the devastation firsthand and conscionable with occurrence victims and archetypal responders. The California politician said Trump has not responded to his invitation arsenic of Sunday.
At slightest 16 radical person been killed by the inferno successful the Los Angeles region, and officials pass determination volition apt beryllium “a batch more” added to the decease toll. The wildfires person burnt astatine slightest 40,000 acres and destroyed astatine slightest 12,000 structures.
