Newsom Urges Trump To Accept Invite To Visit Los Angeles, Tour Damage From Wildfires | EUROtoday

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday known as on President-elect Donald Trump to simply accept his invitation to go to Los Angeles as wildfires proceed to wreak havoc on the town.

“He’s an incoming American president,” stated Newsom, who invited Trump to go to California on Friday, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

“I would expect any leader of the free world, the most powerful person in the United States of America, to respect the pleas of 40 million Americans that happen to live in the state of California … to be here for the American people at a time of emergency and a time of recovery.”

In his letter to Trump, Newsom invited the president-elect to “see the devastation firsthand” in a go to the place he may thank first responders who’re “putting their lives on the line” amid the fires, which have killed not less than 16 individuals and burned over 12,000 buildings with about 57,000 others nonetheless in danger.

Earlier within the week, the governor dismissed Trump’s efforts to “play politics” after the president-elect took to his Truth Social platform accountable him for the fires.

Trump — who has known as on Newsom to resign — has claimed that the governor refused to signal a “water restoration declaration,” blamed efforts to guard an “essentially worthless fish” species for the fires and complained that there’s “no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes” (officers have blamed “tremendous demand” for water storage tanks operating dry).

The governor, in an interview with Fox’s Los Angeles affiliate KTTV, renewed his request for Trump as he pointed to residents whose lives have been “completely torn apart” by the fires.

“It’s with an open hand, not a closed fist and I’m not interested in politicizing an event like this,” Newsom informed Fox 11′s Elex Michaelson.

“I don’t like the venality of it, I don’t like the inhumanity of that, I would like people to focus on a collaboration between the executive in Washington, D.C. and in the state of California to help rebuild a community that’s been completely ravaged.”

Newsom, when requested if the 2 have talked in regards to the fires, stated they haven’t mentioned the subject and he reached out to the president-elect once more on Saturday.

He didn’t straight reply whether or not Trump had returned his name earlier than turning to speak of his “intention” behind the invitation.

HuffPost has reached out to Trump’s group for remark.

Newsom, after remarking on President Joe Biden’s response to the wildfires, informed Michaelson that he’s “not interested in the theater of political consternation.”

“That’s what he’s interested in and I think it’s pretty shameful, personally,” stated Newsom of Trump. “But it shouldn’t extend beyond this, I want to turn the page. I think everyone does.”