Trump touring Texas flood damage Friday

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : " "I admire you, and I consider you heroes," Trump said of the state and local officials around him.
70% : Asked about such concerns, Trump called a reporter posing the question "evil" and said he thought "everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances.
61% : The people that are doing it are unbelievable," Trump told first responders and other state and local officials gathered at an emergency operations center in an expo hall in Kerrville.
54% : That was in stark contrast to Texas, America's largest red state, where Trump thanked Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and scores of other state officials.
53% : And, as we grieve this unthinkable tragedy, we take comfort in the knowledge that God has welcomed those little beautiful girls into his comforting arms in heaven," said Trump who described the floodwaters as "like a giant, giant wave in the Pacific Ocean that the best surfers in the world would be afraid to surf.
44% : " Trump won Kerr County with 77% of the vote last year. Harris Currie, a rancher from Utopia, Texas, near Kerrville, said the flood devastation can be fully understood only by seeing it first-hand.
37% : During his first weekend back in the White House in January, Trump visited North Carolina to scope out damage from Hurricane Helene.
36% : Air Force One landed in San Antonio with Trump deplaning in a suit and first lady Melania Trump wearing more casual clothing.
32% : "You couldn't get better people, and they're doing the job like I don't think anybody else could, frankly," Trump said.
26% : Trump himself has suggested that a warning system should be established, though he has not provided details on how that might happen.
20% : Trump specifically mentioned victims from Camp Mystic, the century-old all-girls Christian summer camp in Texas Hill Country where at least 27 people were killed.
18% : Before leaving the White House, Trump approved Texas' request to extend the major disaster declaration beyond Kerr County to eight additional counties, making them eligible for direct financial assistance to recover and rebuild.

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