President-elect Donald Trump said that he expects to travel to California to survey fire damage as part of his first week back in office.
Trump told NBC News that he plans to visit Los Angeles to see where deadly fires have raged for over a week and consumed tens of thousands of acres. The incoming president said he was first planning to go last Friday, but wanted to wait until he was sworn in as president.
“I will be, probably, at the end of the week,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday. “I was going to go, actually yesterday … but I thought it would be better if I went as president. It’s a little bit more appropriate, I suspect.”
Two of the Los Angeles fires, the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, have yet to be fully contained. The Palisades Fire has burned some 23,713 acres and is only 52% contained while the Eaton Fire has burned 14,021 acres and is just 81% contained.
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