Trump visits North Carolina, L.A. in tour of disaster zones | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The governor told reporters on Thursday that he planned to be on hand at Los Angeles International Airport to greet Trump.
48% : ," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, denigrating the governor by misspelling his name.
39% : "I don't think we should give California anything until they let the water flow down," Trump said.
38% : Trump was due to visit Los Angeles later in the day while three massive blazes still threaten the region.
19% : Trump has focused some of his criticism on California's complicated policies for sharing the plentiful water supply found in the northern part of the state with the parched south.
19% : The diversion results in the discharge of some water into the ocean, something Trump has depicted as a callous waste.
18% : Trump also sharply criticized Democratic officials' response to wildfires in Los Angeles that have caused widespread destruction this month.
14% : In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Trump also threatened to withhold aid and repeated a false claim that California Governor Gavin Newsom and other officials have refused to provide water from the northern part of the state to fight the fires.
4% : Trump complained that Biden did not do enough to help western North Carolina recover from the hurricane, an accusation the Biden administration rejected as misinformation.
3% : Trump has accused Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass - who was out of the country when the fires broke out - of "gross incompetence," pointing to what he called a lack of preparation and ineffective or harmful water management policies.

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