As President Donald Trump tours wildfire damage in California, he’s blaming the state’s water policies for worsening the fires that have devastated the Los Angeles area. But water experts don’t see a connection between the two. (AP Video / Jan. 24, 2025)
President Donald Trump is in the fifth day of his second term in office, striving to remake the traditional boundaries of Washington by asserting unprecedented executive power.
The president also took his first trip of his second administration on Friday, touring areas where politics has clouded the response to deadly disasters. He first traveled to hurricane-battered western North Carolina, where he described FEMA as “a very big disappointment.” Later Friday, Trump arrived in wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles, and he greeted political rival California Gov. Gavin Newsom with a handshake.
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