Newsom to Trump: 'Respect the pleas of 40 million Americans'
(LA Times) President-elect Donald Trump has not responded to Gov. Gavin Newsom's invitation to tour California's fire damage, Newsom said Saturday afternoon.
Newsom sent a letter on Friday inviting the incoming president to California to meet with fire victims, survey the devastation in Los Angeles County and join him in thanking first responders. The invitation, which the governors office said was emailed to Trumps team, marked a slight change in tone in the political battle between Newsom and Trump, with Newsom imploring Trump not to politicize the tragedy.
Newsom delivered an acid-laced reply when asked Saturday whether he expected Trump to respond to the invitation.
"He's an incoming American president," Newsom told a reporter Saturday as he stood on a Los Angeles airport tarmac in front of a hulking CalGuard Black Hawk helicopter. "I would expect any leader of the free world, the most powerful person in the United States of America, to respect the pleas of 40 million Americans that happen to live in the state of California, hundreds of thousands of people that are still evacuated and a recovery effort that includes, right now, cadaver dogs to look for human remains, to be here for the American people at a time of emergency and a time of recovery."
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,942 posts)voted for Trump, right?
dickthegrouch
(3,686 posts)Explain either, you bloated tick.
legallyblondeNYC
(80 posts)... taking charge when there is a disaster....
COL Mustard
(7,051 posts)That'll help people clean up, I'm sure.
Magoo48
(5,648 posts)Trueblue1968
(18,358 posts)I wish he was GONE this very minute. #TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident
slightlv
(4,644 posts)calimary
(84,853 posts)Im in the wish he was GONE this very minute line, too. Already praying for Dems to take back the House and Senate next year to head off further trump damage.
birdographer
(2,534 posts)is to spend as little time as possible reading anything to do with trump. We have left latenight shows because they seem to welcome him to share the stage with them while they talk about him and show videos of him.
BUT, I do come to this site a few times a day. I do that because if he is GONE, if a hero showed up (finally) to rid us of this cancer, I want to know about it. That bottle of champagne waiting for that day isnt going to drink itself.
Please dont tell me that we want him alive because Vance is worse. Maybe you do. I dont. I want to live and breathe the air on a planet where trump no longer exists. Period.
GiqueCee
(1,585 posts)... surely you don't expect the Gangrenous Boil on the Ass of Humanity to suddenly grow a conscience! He once boasted that, when an elderly man fell an cracked his skull, he found it offensive and turned away. He has no humanity. Ah, but you knew that, you sly dog! Let him hoist himself by his own petard, as they say.
Pssst! What the hell is a Petard, anyway?
slightlv
(4,644 posts)it never makes a difference or has an effect on him or anyone around him. They just find a way to blame democrats.
usonian
(15,162 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,286 posts)Who would want to see that?
He said it ar the U.S. cemetery for WII soldiers
He said it again about living in the area during rebuilding.
The man has zero compassion and actively anything uncomfortable.
calimary
(84,853 posts)Every day Im feeling prouder and more justified about my votes AGAINST trump. Havent given him a thumbs-up in YEARS.
IronLionZion
(47,315 posts)RW media is making a big deal about the fact that LAFD has several female fire chiefs, as if that has anything to do with anything.
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VBNMW
(61 posts)EOM