Donald Trump spoke on Wednesday of the dismantling of the federal agency responsible for natural disasters which he accused of incompetence under his predecessor Joe Biden, criticizing the management of the ongoing fires in California and recent hurricanes in the southeastern states -United.
«The FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] has not done his job these last four years,” declared the new American president during his first television interview since his inauguration, on the conservatives’ favorite airwaves, Fox News.
In his first term (2017-2021), Donald Trump assured that, on the contrary, “FEMA worked really well”.
“We had hurricanes in Florida, tornadoes in Alabama,” recalled the tenant of the White House interviewed in the Oval Office by host Sean Hannity, one of his notorious supporters.
And while a new fire broke out north of Los Angeles, Donald Trump spoke of abolishing FEMA.
The federal agency “is going to be the subject of a big discussion shortly, because I would prefer to see the States [fédérés] take care of their own problems,” he declared, suggesting that the federal government would limit itself to financial aid.
As soon as the fires broke out in Los Angeles in early January, Donald Trump, who was not yet inaugurated, attacked the Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and Joe Biden, then still serving as president.
-He had accused Mr. Newsom of reducing access to water in California and demanded that he “let the water flow to his dry and burning state rather than sending it to the Pacific Ocean”.
“I don’t think we should give anything to California until they let the water flow from the north to the south of the state,” the US president repeated on Wednesday.
He had also attacked “the crass incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden/Newscum duo”, misusing the surname “Newsom” with the word “scum”, which means rebut.
On Wednesday, Trump again called the California governor an “idiot.”
Republicans in Congress and President Trump have repeatedly called for federal aid to California to be conditional on measures to combat natural disasters.
The Trumpists had also criticized the work of FEMA, particularly with regard to disaster relief, during hurricanes followed by floods which left more than 100 dead this fall in the southeast of the country.
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