Posted on 07/26/2025 9:00:51 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
President Trump has seemingly reignited his feud with California Gov. Gavin Newsom over proceeds from the California FireAid concert, arguing that $100 million in donations intended for Los Angeles residents who were affected by the January fires is “missing.”
“‘FIREAID’ IS A TOTAL DISASTER. LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER DEMOCRAT INSPIRED SCAM. 100 MILLION DOLLARS IS MISSING. WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE LOS ANGELES FIRE VICTIMS, FIRES THAT, WITH PROPER MANAGEMENT, WOULD NEVER HAVE EVEN HAPPENED. GOVERNOR NEWSCUM REFUSED TO RELEASE BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST,” Trump wrote Friday evening on Truth Social.
“WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT WOULD HAVE MADE,” he added.
FireAid was a one-night concert described as an event to raise money for residents that lost their homes during the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this year. The fundraising concert featured stars such as Olivia Rodrigo, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, along with some victims of the Palisades and Altadena blazes.
The distribution of the funds has come under scrutiny.
FireAid raised around $100 million so far, according to the event’s website.
In a statement to the city’s Fox affiliate, the charity said it does not “have the capability to make direct payments to individuals and that was never the plan. We partnered directly with trusted local non-profits…to reach communities in need.”
Actor Miles Teller said during the event that “all the money raised will go directly to people who need it now and long-term efforts to build it back,” according to Fox News.
Trump took a jab at Newsom, writing Friday evening that he has since “OVERRULED HIM, AND IT IS NOW RELEASED.”
“All FEDERAL HOUSING PERMITS HAVE ALSO BEEN APPROVED, THE CITY IS YEARS LATE,” he said. “GET THE FIRE VICTIMS THEIR APPROVALS TO REBUILD, AND DO IT NOW!”
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Cracking down on corruption is not a “feud”.
President Trump is absolutely right. This is a huge scandal.
Ok. I understand. Being set up to issue checks for a lot of people is a big enterprise (though you do have $100M) so please give us a list of all of the “trusted nonprofits” and an accounting from each on how they spent the money.
I give teller a pass. He has no clue how these things go. Karen bass was on the board of one of the USAID slush funds. The one musk called evil. NED
Republicans aren’t immune to the slush fund grift either.
It is disgusting that the fire victims are being ignored while the grifters grift.
NGO’s need to be RICO AUDITED, prosecuted if scammers, and then outlawed.
There is no ‘feud’.
Just Trump and an inept socialist governor of a failed state.
I think container housing could be one answer to our housing crisis. We’re 4 million units short. Put a 40’ shipping container in the back yard of every burned out lot in Pacific Palisades for starters. Deliver it with a couple of 39’ long sewer pipes. No obstacles except with the permit office. Run ruffshod over them. Let it show how fast the 4 million homes needed can be dealt with. It wouldn’t solve the homeless problem but Trump has a way of getting things done.
Do the same in Lahina and that northern Calif. town-Paradise. That would encourage every town and city to go looking for single available lots and back yards. A town with a grid where there’s a back alley where utilities are fed.
Plenty of containers out there as our imports don’t get returned leaving the fcontainer.
Once a container home is place in the back of an empty lot owners can then decide what to build in the front.
LOL
Why aren’t the California concert performers speaking out?
Their silence makes them complicit in the theft of the funds.
Why does the PNW have to give their water to California? I don’t agree with Trump on that.
“...reignited feud...”
What a dishonest headline!! the story is about grand theft!!! and Newsom is the thief!!!!
NewSCUM set the Palisades fire..has ANYONE even bothered to ask Newsom “How did the Palisades fire start” its been almost EIGHT MONTHS and you’re telling me they still cant figure out the cause..PLEASE..anyone with a functioning brain cell in their head knows the cause, I knew the cause the second Newsom said that he wanted to “Reimagine” the Palisades after the fire..then he started spewing about how he wanted low income housing in the area, then I knew, they started the fire, the Palisades is just too damn white for these leftist clowns, so they set the fire to get them out. Luckily their plan failed and the motion to approve low income housing in the Palisades after massive uproar got postponed to next year. We all now where the “Fireaid” money went too, to far left NGO’s just like they always do
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION HAS SOME SERIOUS EXPLAINING TO DO.
THE BIGGEST WATER MISMANAGEMENT IS TAKING PLACE NEAR THE “DELTA” HEAR RIO LINDA—WEST OF SACRAMENTO.
WATER CANALS ALREADY EXIST FROM AROUND CHICO, CALIF TO LA:
AT WHEELER RIDGE, PUMPS PUSH THE WATER OVER THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS & IT COMES OUT NEAR 405 & BALBOA BLVD.
STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
Cause they got paid, the money got distributed to nonprofits, zero went or has gone to the fire victims period
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