Trump says he would withhold California fire aid unless Newsom 'signs those papers'

[Zorro]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Former President Trump painted a dystopian image of California as crime-ridden, water-starved and flooded with immigrants in the country illegally, which he cast as a warning about what will happen to the nation if Kamala Harris is elected president.

“I’m here today in California with a very simple message for the American people: We cannot allow comrade Kamala Harris and the communist left to do to America what they did to California,” he told reporters Friday from his bluff-top golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes, with the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island in the background. “The state of California is a mess, with people leaving, and nothing’s gonna stop them.”

Trump said if he were elected, he would stop sending California federal firefighting aid unless Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he referred to repeatedly as “Newscum,” enacted his policy priorities on issues such as taxes.

“If he doesn’t sign those papers, we won’t give him money to put out all his fires. And if we don’t give him all the money to put out the fires, he’s got problems,” Trump said. “He’s a lousy governor.”

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-09-13/2024-election-trump-rancho-palos-verdes-news-conference

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This guy can't FOAD quick enough.

[ffr]

1. Blackmailer-in-chief. Trump is a piece of shit! He and the whole QOP need to be defeated soundly

this November!

[Buzz cook]

51. Technically extortion

Nice little state ya got there, shame if something bad happened to it.

[thucythucy]

2. There's a part of me that wishes the blue states could declare an embargo

on our tax dollars being funneled into red states.

How long would it be before people in those states would be begging for states like New York, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut etc, to come to their rescue?

Of course, dividing up the country is just what the MAGAts say they want. You know, the "Keep the government out of my Medicare!" folks.

No offense to all the good Democrats in those states, who of course shouldn't have to suffer on account of the idiocy of their fellow citizens.

But what would happen if President Biden said no more hurricane relief aid until Florida and Louisiana change their laws on abortion?

[slightlv]

13. I"m in a red state, and I don't blame you!

Part of me thinks the same way you do.

[ck4829]

3. If he'll tolerate a wildfire storming through the country, he'll tolerate Putin doing the same

[canuckledragger]

4. Boy, conservatives are SO jealous of California's 5th largest economy in the world

...as they desperately try to deflect attention away from their own mismanaged, crime-ridden shit hole red states.

Remember folks, every republican accusation is a confession.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Exactly.

I wonder if that orange gibbon is aware of what would happen if California decided to do the same thing to him?

[Maxheader]

5. Don't know what scares me most..

the yellow haired american traitor, or the millions who will vote for him.

[keithbvadu2]

6. CA has many Trumpers, DonOld. Let 'em burn? Visit their burned out town and call it the wrong name?

[ArmedLiberal24]

7. And this is how a 6'3 man" only with lifts" I Q of 73 thinks a U.S. President should act.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. What a fucking disgrace Orange Boy. Sickening. Anti-American. Go suck Vlad's ass. Sorry but Rude Pundit might agree?

[twodogsbarking]

10. California is laughing at you Trumpo.

It is the largest sub-national economy in the world. If California were a nation it would rank in terms of nominal GDP as the world's fifth largest economy, behind Japan and ahead of India (3.937 trillion).

[BurnDoubt]

30. LOVING "Trumpo". The Clown!!!!!!!!!

[sakabatou]

11. Trump, once again, trying to run the country like one of his businesses

including blackmail.

[Marcuse]

12. Similar to the "deal" he offered Zelenskyy.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. "He's a lousy governor." And what a coincidence!

Newsom is ALSO the EX-HUSBAND of the FIANCEE of YOUR SON. (No wedding after 2+ years of engagement)

Not that it makes a difference . . . . . .

[Sequoia]

26. No wedding for you, my dear.

[BurnDoubt]

31. Kimberly Gargoyle?

Pretty sure cocaine is needed to stand her "presence", SO...... 'Splains alot?????

[Farmer-Rick]

39. Cocaine and support of sexual abuse

"In November, 2018, a young woman who had been one of Guilfoyle’s assistants at Fox News sent company executives a confidential, forty-two-page draft complaint that accused Guilfoyle of repeated sexual harassment, and demanded monetary relief. The document, which resulted in a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-history-of-kimberly-guilfoyles-departure-from-fox

[tonekat]

15. What a dirty, rotten, S.O.B. N/T

[SpankMe]

16. I have no data to support my hypothesis, but...

...anecdotally I'd say a lot of the people leaving Cali are right-wingers fleeing the high cost of living for red states without state income tax and with lower housing costs. They had careers here and created a comparatively larger retirement nest egg due to higher California salaries. They bought their houses 30 years prior and sold them at inflated California prices taking 6 or 7 figures of tax free money with them to rural Arizona, Texas, Nevada or Utah.

With cons leaving at a higher rate then libs, I think the exodus is making Cali bluer overall.

At the same time, they're taking their suitcases full of cash into retirement and are inflating housing prices in these red states, fomenting anti-California sentiment even more.

No matter which way you cut it, Trump is a world class asshole.

[CanonRay]

27. I'm on the Oregon coast

and we've had many climate refugees moving from Cali. Fires and heat. Lots of Sacramento, Fresno, and Paradise people.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

42. They're making houses more expensive for people who live here

They'll buy a house remotely for the asking instead of negotiating with the seller. I don't blame them, but then house prices rise without an increase in income.

[kimbutgar]

44. I own 2 homes

The one I brought in the early 90’s and my childhood home I inherited and I get postcards and letters all the time offering to buy them sight unseen.

The house next door to me sold recently and it feels like the new owner brought it to flip.

[DonCoquixote]

17. anyway past the paid site?

just asking

[Zorro]

18. Try this

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-withhold-california-fire-195606246.html

[DonCoquixote]

34. thanks

I try to pay, but I can only afford so much on a fixed income

[Martin68]

19. Trump know he's not going to win California, but independents hear this kind of fascist threat too.

[JohnSJ]

20. That should immediately disqualify him.

[LudwigPastorius]

21. What a miserable son of a bitch.

Imagine living a life in which EVERY single human interaction you have is a transaction that you must "win".

Trump is a waste of protoplasm.

[tornado34jh]

22. How about this? No funds for the red states in case of a natural disaster, ungrateful bastards

See if they can handle it themselves. Bet you they can't. In fact, I looked up the 11 most expensive natural disasters in US history. Do you want to know how many of them were in red states? Of the 11, at least 8 of them had the most damage in a red state, mainly Florida, Texas, and Louisiana. Heck, Texas and its power grid couldn't even handle the extreme winter in 2021, and that was in extremely rare circumstances, but a huge reason why it was so bad was due to decisions made years ago to be its own power grid. Mother Nature doesn't discriminate between red or blue states, but clearly some can handle it better than others.

[PortTack]

46. Even when the red states do get aid, they funnel it into their own pockets! Bastards

[tornado34jh]

52. Which is telling, because honestly, they are lucky Biden was generous, if it were me, I wouldn't be as generous.

When Hurricane Ian hit Florida in 2022 and the big Texas Freeze came in 2021, in both instances Biden could have easily have said, "No, you guys are ungrateful, you're on your own". Then they have the gall to complain about Biden/Harris. Such ungrateful bastards.

[progree]

23. Let it burn? The entire contiguous 48 states is down wind. In Minnesota we get California and Canadian

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(mostly British Columbia) wildfire smoke, and plenty of it.

[Figarosmom]

24. I fail to understsnd how

This would get him votes in California. Threatening them with letting them burn sounds more like a protection racket.

[MadameButterfly]

54. CAlifornia is lost to Trump

He isn't trying to get votes there. He thinks he'll get votes in swing states I guess for bullying California. Or maybe it's just for his base, and he'll steal the rest.

[Montauk6]

25. Are those papers along these lines...?

Ich schwöre: Ich werde dem Führer des MAGA Reiches und Volkes
Donald J. Trump treu und gehorsam sein, die Gesetze beachten,
und meine Amtspflichten gewissenhaft erfüllen, so wahr mir Gott helfe.

[OMGWTF]

47. Sign ze papers Old Man.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

28. Fuckface...you're the one rubbing elbows

And exchanging love letters with communist dictators. You’re the traitor who tried to overturn our democracy.

[Zambero]

29. Shame if your state burned up

said the wannabee mob boss, who now resides in a state where climate refugees and victims of insurance cancellation are leaving in droves.

[BurnDoubt]

32. So, he's going to frag his magat minions just to spite himself?

He should really consider how this will go down for them. Does he know THEY are the ones who live in the sticks (because they don't like being too near other people and certainly not "those people&quot ? Build your home smack in the middle of nowhere, clinging to a hillside at the end of a winding gravel road, surrounded by dry fuel in an increasingly fragile environment featuring extreme heat exacerbated by piss-poor fore-sight and management... WHAT COULD GO WRONG? So, yeah, let 'em burn, huh? Seems to me Kamala must be looking pretty good, compared to the "chiseler". Gotta love the guy's style, though.

[Lonestarblue]

33. Same approach as Covid--send ad to red states, force blue states to find their own supplies and equipment.

Which Jared frequently confiscated, and no one knows what he did with it. How much did he sell on the black market for himself while people in the US were dying from lack of supples?

[LymphocyteLover]

35. who he repeatedly called "Newscum".... this motherfucking POS wants to be president?

what a fucking motherfucking piece of work

[Vinca]

36. Who could have predicted "Kamala will send firemen" as a political ad?

[twodogsbarking]

37. The federal government owns almost 50% of the total land in California.

Trump = Dumberthanshit.

[moose65]

38. Hmmm...

I wonder if Trump knows that he got more votes in California than he got in any other state??

[Magoo48]

40. Born in Long Beach, lived here all my life; I'll die here in OC.

We don’t like him here; we don’t want him here. Ever. I’m happy enough with the California Republic. And, we are a Republic. I’m convinced that we, as well as the rest of the left coast, would not suffer Orange fascism for long.
At this point I’m fairly sure we won’t be bored by him or his handlers for much longer

Orange Man, go home. You don’t belong here. Eres un puto culo.

[karin_sj]

41. And yet...

The hateful, racist MAGATs who reside in California will still vote for him. Even here in the Bay Area, we have quite a few popping off on Facebook and Nextdoor posts whenever they have the opportunity, blaming Newson for every problem that our state faces (especially anything to do with crime, the economy, homelessness, etc.). Luckily, they are vastly outnumbered by the sane residents. Get out of our state, Orange Moron! And take your MAGAT followers with you!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

43. I suspect TFG has some arsonists among his rabid supporters.

Just a hunch, based on other criminal events that seem to happen after his rallies.....

We can bet his hero Putin's trolls are fanning the flames on social media, too......

[PortTack]

45. The idiot threatens CA....the 6th largest economy in the world. He's got turds for brains

[lonely bird]

48. Some nice states your MAGAts have along the gulf coast

Be a shame if a hurricane came along…you might need federal aid.

[Harker]

53. Having had an older brother killed in a wildfire elsewhere, I'm inclined to say, "fuck you, Drumpf, you Nazi" ...

but I have been so inclined for decades.

Thanks to inspirational DUer rzemanfl for the pithy statement.

[Freethinker65]

55. This alone should disqualify this asshole.

Imagine is Biden refused to provide disaster aid to Texas, Louisiana, and/or Florida if they didn't codify women's reproductive rights, if they didn't stop passing state laws targeting LGTBQ communities, if they didn't rescind book /DEI bans, etc.

Trump got away with slow walking PPE (and even confiscating PPE to sell on the open market from states that tried to procure their own PPE) to blue cities at the start of COVID. Trump got away with delaying to California for fires already.

This partisan bullshit needs to stop.

[Metaphorical]

56. What strikes me is why California?

Trump doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning California, and he's not the kind of person to go to a state to help downparty races when his momentum is clearly down. So why he is there?
My suspicion is that he's performing damage control with his Tech Bro investors who are getting cold feet after the debate.

[ailsagirl]

57. More evidence that he's got bats in his belfry

[kiri]

58. I get the "fall over dead" part, but what is the A?

"This guy can't FOAD quick enough."

I get the "fall over dead" part, but what is the A?

[Zorro]

61. Google is your friend

[HagathaCrispy]

59. Melanomia said the same thing

Melanomia said the same thing.

[travelingthrulife]

60. He actually did try to withhold federal emergency funding last time he was in office

Blathering about how California should rake their forests better, etc.

Now there have been many more states impacted by huge fires. They may recognize the extortion more readily.