Trump heads to California to view wildfire devastation in first presidential trip of second term

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Trump said it was included on Friday's itinerary so he could "thank them for the vote" after he won the swing state in November.
42% : "We're going to take care of Los Angeles," Trump told reporters as he previewed the visit, which will be bookended by stops in North Carolina and Nevada.
36% : Trump said this week that he didn't know whether he would meet with Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, while he is on the ground in California.
36% : On Friday, Trump will also visit North Carolina, which was hit hard when Hurricane Helene passed through it months ago.
33% : Those efforts could quickly ramp up as Trump enacts a raft of hard-line immigration orders and deregulatory efforts that are at odds with the wishes of California's Democratic leadership.
31% : Trump said that trip was due in part to politics, "because those people were treated very badly by Democrats.
28% : "He suggested federal aid to California could be withheld over state efforts to protect the Delta smelt, a small fish that has become a fixation of Trump's and even the subject of a Day One memorandum.
25% : After Trump won the 2024 election, Newsom said he would again launch a legal assault on the new administration, proposing to raise a war chest of tens of millions of dollars for the fight.
24% : Trump also indicated he would like to see big changes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and, without elaborating, said he would "rather see the states take care of their own problems.
22% : Trump has blamed water shortages in the Los Angeles region on policies meant to preserve the endangered fish, arguing more water needs to flow from Northern California to Southern California.
8% : "Trump and Newsom, who previously invited him to survey the wildfire damage, have sparred publicly since Trump's first term in office, when California sued his administration dozens of times.

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