Cal Fire Victim: Is Trump Going to Throw Paper Towels at Us?

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Trump will visit California on Saturday to meet with people who have suffered losses in the state’s wildfires, the White House said Thursday.

“The president will travel to California this Saturday to meet with individuals impacted by the wildfires,” White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said in a statement. “We will keep you updated on details as they are available.”

The administration offered no additional information on where Trump would travel.

The announcement comes amid criticism of Trump’s initial response to the devastating fires in Butte County and Southern California. Although he has signed off on a disaster declaration that allows federal support to flow into the state, he has also made threats about withholding such aid. Trump has frequently maligned California and has used wildfires as a way to criticize the state’s environmental policies, though most experts say the two are not linked.

The trip will also be the president’s first to the state since he traveled here in March to highlight his efforts to build a wall at the southern border.

Trump was silent for two days as the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise in Butte County, killing at least 63 people and destroying 11,862 structures, and the Woolsey Fire erupted in Southern California. Three people have died and 500 structures have been lost in that blaze.

Then on Saturday, he outraged California officials and the state’s largest firefighters association with a tweet that expressed no condolences for the state or fire victims, but instead blamed “poor” forest management for such disasters...

Trump has visited the state only once as president, traveling to the San Diego area in March to view prototypes of his border wall. But he has visited disaster scenes in several other states, including hurricane damage in Texas, Florida and the Carolinas, leaving some lawmakers questioning why he hadn’t come to California to view either the damage from recent fires or the devastation from earlier blazes near Redding and in the North Bay...

Noreen Jones, in her 60s, lost her home in the Butte County hamlet of Concow and is staying with her 31-year-old son in Chico.

“Is he going to throw some paper towels at us? That’s what he did over in Puerto Rico. He was throwing paper towels,” Jones said, recounting Trump’s visit to the island after it was hit by Hurricane Maria in 2017. “I have nothing to say to him at this time.”

Mocking him is dumb.

They should be kissing Trump's rear end, so he keeps the money flowing.

I wonder how much of a tantrum Trump will throw when he gets booed by a blue state audience.