Due to the wildfires raging in Los Angeles, incoming US President Donald Trump provoked a political dispute Thursday with outgoing President Joe Biden and California’s Democratic governor.
In a series of broadsides devoid of supporting facts, Trump accused Governor Gavin Newsom of a number of shortcomings, including squandering water that could have been used to put out fires in order to save a particular species of fish.
“Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!” Trump said on his Truth Social network, using his usual nickname for the Democrat, who is widely viewed as a potential White House contender.
Trump added that the deadly Los Angeles fires showed that January 20, when he replaces Biden in the White House, “cannot come fast enough.”
“Let this serve, and be emblematic, of the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden/Newscum Duo,” he said.
On Thursday, Biden retaliated by telling people to “not make a political deal of it” during a crisis meeting of administration officials at the White House.
On his last international trip as president, he was scheduled to depart for Italy on Thursday to meet Pope Francis, but he postponed it until late Wednesday in order to stay and attend to the flames.
“I’m leaving this office very shortly, but it’s not about the politics,” he said. “It’s about giving people some sense of security that we’re going to be able to get this under control.”
Biden made a number of announcements regarding new government resources and funds to assist California in addressing what he described as the most destructive wildfires in the state’s history.
However, he seemed particularly eager to refute the allegations that water constraints brought on by Democratic administration had made it difficult for firemen to extinguish the fire.
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