Watching Trump's remarks in CA just now I am so embarrassed. He doesn't even have the social grace (never mind the necessary protocol becoming his office) to call Jerry Brown, GOVERNOR Brown..what an ass. #CaliforniaFires washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
2/"President Trump returned Saturday to criticizing forest-management decisions he suggested are at least partly to blame for deadly wildfires in California as he prepared to visit firefighters and others working to contain the blazes and locate the missing.“We will be talking
3/"about forest management. I’ve been saying that for a long time. It should have been a lot different situation,” Trump said before leaving the White House early Saturday.“But the one thing is that everybody now knows that this is what we have to be doing, and there’s no
4/"question about it. It should have been done many years ago.”He did not say exactly what he thinks California officials have done wrong. Trump will meet Saturday with California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), a frequent critic of the president, and with Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom (D)
5/"and emergency workers. “I think everybody’s on the right side. It’s a big issue, it’s a big issue, a very expensive issue, but very, very inexpensive when you compare it to even one of these horrible fires. And we’ll save a lot of lives,” Trump said...Among the areas being
6/"threatened by the fire is Thousand Oaks, which is still grieving after 12 people were killed in the Nov. 7 mass shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill.Trump did not respond to a question Saturday about whether he would meet with shooting victims.
7/ Above excerpts from a WaPo article, written by Jenna Portnoy & Anne Gearan, 11/17/18
