President Donald Trump went to North Carolina before proceeding to California on Friday to other people affected through hurricanes and forest fires.

The visits are Trump’s first trips outside Washington, D. C. , since he assumed the position in his current mandate as president.

Trump has abruptly criticized the governor of California Gavin Newsom and other officials for responding to forest fires that have a generalized devastation this month.

However, as the pair met on the tarmac in California, Trump struck a more positive note, saying: “I appreciate the governor coming out and meeting me,”

He promised to “solve it,” adding, “the one you get is painted is to paint with the state governor, and we will finish it. We will want a lot of federal help. “

Trump was among those who spread many false or misleading claims about wildfires in Los Angeles, many of which have gone viral after Elon Musk reposted them on his social media platform.

Among these claims was that Newsom refused to provide water from the northern part of the state to fight the fires in order to protect an endangered fish species called the delta smelt.

Newsom said there is no link between the fish and the chimney and that he had not kept Northern California water to combat chimneys in the southern part of the state.

In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Trump threatened to retain help in California and continued to blame state water control policies to obtain worse fires.

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“I don’t think we should give California anything until they let the water run down,” Trump said in an interview Sean Hannity on Wednesday.

Since they broke out, the fires have killed 28 people and damaged or destroyed nearly 16,000 structures, authorities said. Some rain is predicted for the region over the weekend, but much of Southern California remains under an extreme fire warning. 

Trump also accused Biden Management of not doing enough western North Carolina in its recovery efforts since Hurricane Helene devastated the region in September.

Biden’s management rejected accusations as misinformation.

Unlike their comments regarding the assistance of other people affected through fires in California, Trump promised before the elections that would reduce administrative formalities and provide federal in the reconstruction of devastated houses through Hurricane Helene.  

But after arriving in North Carolina, the role of the federal government triumphs in the relief of the crisis.

“I will also sign a decree to initiate the fundamental reform and review procedure of FEMA, or get rid of FEMA,” Trump told reporters, referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

He added that he would like to see the states “deal with disasters” and that he would look “for” the total concept “of FEMA.

“Let the State take care of tornadoes and hurricanes and all the things that happen,” Trump told reporters.

kb/sms (Reuters, AP, AFP)