Inaugurated on Monday, President Donald Trump spent Friday on a coast-to-coast tour of disaster zones, musing about abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency and conditioning California fire recovery aid on voting law changes.

Trump traveled from Washington D.C. to Asheville, N.C., and visited communities in the western part of the state impacted by severe flooding from Hurricane Helene last year. He then flew to Los Angeles and toured damage from devastating wildfires in the region, which are ongoing.
Trump met with governors in both states, local officials, emergency responders and property owners in his first official trip as president.
Trump makes nice with Newsom

The relationship between the GOP president and California’s Democratic governor has often been contentious.

Trump likes to refer to Newsom as “Newscum.”
They set those animosities aside Friday as both men grapple with one of the nation’s worst natural disasters in memory.

Newsom waited for Trump at the bottom of the stairs as he departed from Air Force One in Los Angeles. They embraced and spoke to the media together.

“We’re gonna need your support, we’re gonna need your help,” Newsom said. “You were there for us during COVID, I don’t forget that, and I have all the expectations that we’ll be able to work together.”