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Dulcinea

(8,254 posts)
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 05:23 PM Jan 2025

Newsom to Trump: 'Respect the pleas of 40 million Americans'

(LA Times) President-elect Donald Trump has not responded to Gov. Gavin Newsom's invitation to tour California's fire damage, Newsom said Saturday afternoon.

Newsom sent a letter on Friday inviting the incoming president to California to meet with fire victims, survey the devastation in Los Angeles County and join him in thanking first responders. The invitation, which the governor’s office said was emailed to Trump’s team, marked a slight change in tone in the political battle between Newsom and Trump, with Newsom imploring Trump not to politicize the tragedy.

Newsom delivered an acid-laced reply when asked Saturday whether he expected Trump to respond to the invitation.

"He's an incoming American president," Newsom told a reporter Saturday as he stood on a Los Angeles airport tarmac in front of a hulking CalGuard Black Hawk helicopter. "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, hundreds of thousands of people that are still evacuated and a recovery effort that includes, right now, cadaver dogs to look for human remains, to be here for the American people at a time of emergency and a time of recovery."

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Newsom to Trump: 'Respect the pleas of 40 million Americans' (Original Post) Dulcinea Jan 2025 OP
Because not a single citizen of California PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2025 #1
No Californians gave him any money either dickthegrouch Jan 2025 #2
And who is behaving more manly.... legallyblondeNYC Jan 2025 #3
He'll throw paper towels. COL Mustard Jan 2025 #9
Perhaps he'll help us rake the remaining chaparral around SoCal. Magoo48 Jan 2025 #13
Trump has no heart. He is incapable of feeling compassion or love. He is a monster Trueblue1968 Jan 2025 #4
My emotion is right there with you, right this minute, Trueblue! slightlv Jan 2025 #6
Take a number. calimary Jan 2025 #10
Part of my coping mechanism birdographer Jan 2025 #11
Gavin, sweetie, baby, cookie, honey... GiqueCee Jan 2025 #5
And no matter how many times he's hoisted upon that petard, slightlv Jan 2025 #7
Petard. French usonian Jan 2025 #14
In Trumps refusal to visit he would just say... Delmette2.0 Jan 2025 #8
Fucking BASTARD. calimary Jan 2025 #15
MAGAts are all about politicizing the tragedy IronLionZion Jan 2025 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 #16
Can't tell if he's serious VBNMW Jan 2025 #17

Trueblue1968

(18,468 posts)
4. Trump has no heart. He is incapable of feeling compassion or love. He is a monster
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 06:17 PM
Jan 2025

I wish he was GONE this very minute. #TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident

calimary

(85,955 posts)
10. Take a number.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:54 PM
Jan 2025

I’m in the “wish he was GONE this very minute” line, too. Already praying for Dems to take back the House and Senate next year to head off further trump damage.

birdographer

(2,937 posts)
11. Part of my coping mechanism
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:54 PM
Jan 2025

is to spend as little time as possible reading anything to do with trump. We have left latenight shows because they seem to welcome him to share the stage with them while they talk about him and show videos of him.

BUT, I do come to this site a few times a day. I do that because if he is GONE, if a hero showed up (finally) to rid us of this cancer, I want to know about it. That bottle of champagne waiting for that day isn’t going to drink itself.

Please don’t tell me that we want him alive because Vance is worse. Maybe you do. I don’t. I want to live and breathe the air on a planet where trump no longer exists. Period.

GiqueCee

(2,139 posts)
5. Gavin, sweetie, baby, cookie, honey...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 06:58 PM
Jan 2025

... surely you don't expect the Gangrenous Boil on the Ass of Humanity to suddenly grow a conscience! He once boasted that, when an elderly man fell an cracked his skull, he found it offensive and turned away. He has no humanity. Ah, but you knew that, you sly dog! Let him hoist himself by his own petard, as they say.

Pssst! What the hell is a Petard, anyway?

slightlv

(5,403 posts)
7. And no matter how many times he's hoisted upon that petard,
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:07 PM
Jan 2025

it never makes a difference or has an effect on him or anyone around him. They just find a way to blame democrats.

Delmette2.0

(4,334 posts)
8. In Trumps refusal to visit he would just say...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:33 PM
Jan 2025

Who would want to see that?

He said it ar the U.S. cemetery for WII soldiers
He said it again about living in the area during rebuilding.

The man has zero compassion and actively anything uncomfortable.

calimary

(85,955 posts)
15. Fucking BASTARD.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 08:11 PM
Jan 2025

Every day I’m feeling prouder and more justified about my votes AGAINST trump. Haven’t given him a thumbs-up in YEARS.

IronLionZion

(48,552 posts)
12. MAGAts are all about politicizing the tragedy
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:58 PM
Jan 2025

RW media is making a big deal about the fact that LAFD has several female fire chiefs, as if that has anything to do with anything.

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