Posted on 01/25/2025 4:40:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump sparred with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who was traveling abroad in Ghana when California’s fires broke out, Friday after she pushed back on rebuilding the state as quickly as possible.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., met Trump at the tarmac before the Republican president toured the devastation and held a roundtable meeting with state leaders and lawmakers. California’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies were widely blamed for Los Angeles’s incompetent, lesbian-led fire department and a Ghana-bound Bass as flames raged on without reprieve.
Trump did not hesitate to call out Bass in their televised meeting, slamming the Los Angeles mayor for slow-walking recovery efforts.
One man affected by the Pacific Palisades wildfire asked Bass how soon relief would come, telling her that victims “are all hanging on” her words as they struggle with rent and getting back to their lives.
Trump immediately said, “six months is no good,” balking the Democrat mayor’s murky plan. Base attempted to grandstand about moving debris from affected areas, but the president did not buy her attempted slow-down under the guise of safety.
“But the people are willing to clean out their own debris. It doesn’t cost a lot,” Trump said of Bass’s attempt to defer the responsibility to the federal government.
Bass acknowledged that people “can” move their own debris from affected sites, but Trump did not accept her response. The president said, “You should let them do it because by the time you hire contractors, it’s gonna be two years.”
Bass stuttered as she tried to combat Trump’s common sense approach, but he did not give her any leeway.
“I know that guy right there that’s talking. I know my people. He’ll be on that thing tonight, throwing the stuff away and your site will be, it will look perfect within 24 hours,” Trump said.
The president added, “He doesn’t want to wait around for seven months until the city hires some demolition contract that’s gonna charge him $25,000 to do his lot.”
Trump visited North Carolina earlier Friday to tour the damage caused by Hurricane Helene in Sept. 2024. In what was the first trip of his second term, Trump said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“FEMA has been a very big disappointment,” the Republican president said. “It’s very bureaucratic. And it’s very slow.”
Orange man bad! Bass is an idiot!
I watched it. He really nailed her.
Trump said something about noon today would be good for people to be able to start cleaning. I wonder if the mayor got on that.
People should all just go do it.
He must’ve looked at these entitled CA people with maximum contempt, having just left the very poor people in NC who are struggling. Quite the contrast of two completely diverse groups of people all within 12 hours.
Bass has spent her entire political career playing African princess for woke identity politics.
She is qualified for nothing.
“Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., met Trump at the tarmac”
Trump made Newsome wait.
Trump won the power handshake.
Trump rolls in owning the entire deck of cards. They failed utterly at their jobs, and he comes with the power do a performance audit and to decide funding.
What timing that Gavin and the legislature just had an emergency meeting to spend $50M on anti-Trump programs.
This is Art of the Deal on a grand scale.
Bass keeps wanting to control everything. Trump says let the people do what they want with THEIR property. Bass wants to issue permits to allow people to enter their homes with the permit process taking up to 18 months. Trump says it should take no more than a week to get things moving.
In a nutshell:
Bass: Control everything and stall by insuring permits
Trump: Get the gov’t out of the way and let the people do their thing
The people in CA need to wise up at the ballot box.
Trump should check back in a week to see if the bitch lied.
Like A Boss!!!
Re “… need to wise up at the ballot box.”
They need to build a gallows and work it 24 / 7 for a couple months.
Bass really put Trump in his place on this one. She let him know in uncertain terms that you can’t even fly back to LA from Ghana in 24 hrs, much less start rebuilding a city of burned out houses.
“Trump won the power handshake.”
Right? We laughed so hard watching Newsom try to be the alpha in that handshake. Grab hard, and pull in. Trump was having none of it.
Just another sign that Newsom doesn’t know his place. Same as Bass. Who the hell do they think they’re dealing with? (I think they’ll know soon enough.)
Bass has spent her entire political career playing
“entitled African princess.” She is qualified for nothing.
A good wrap on why this moron gallivanted to Africa mooching
off taxpayers while her LA constituents were in danger.
It’s all about her.....nobody else counts.
Let’s not forget decrepit Biden had her on his A-list for VP.
Yes I remember she was the other DEI VP candidate!
Bass is a major loser......Bidumb gave a dork like Harris the VP slot.
Well his choice was between Dumb and Dumber…he chose Dumber!😛
lol......that about sums it up.
😂😛😍
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