{"id":4651,"date":"2025-01-09T02:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-sounds-off-on-la-fires-greenland-and-the-border-as-he-emerges-from-hill-talks-on-his-legislative-agenda\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T02:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T02:05:24","slug":"trump-sounds-off-on-la-fires-greenland-and-the-border-as-he-emerges-from-hill-talks-on-his-legislative-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-sounds-off-on-la-fires-greenland-and-the-border-as-he-emerges-from-hill-talks-on-his-legislative-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sounds off on LA fires, Greenland and the border as he emerges from Hill talks on his legislative agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that the wildfires ripping through the Los Angeles region were \u201ca true tragedy\u201d and blamed the disaster in part on the state\u2019s Democratic governor.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill after meeting with Republican lawmakers, Trump criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom for the scarcity of water that has made it harder to fight fires that have killed at least five people. He didn&#8217;t explain what the governor could have done about the dry, windy conditions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a true tragedy and it\u2019s a mistake of the governor, and you could say the administration,\u201d Trump said.\u201cThe governor has not done a good job,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWith that being said, I got along well with him when he was governor, we worked together very well. And we would work together \u2014 I guess it looks like we&#8217;re going to be the one having to rebuild it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who spoke for about seven minutes, said that on the first day of his administration he would close the border. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be closed very strongly,\u201d he said, adding that he would \u201ctake people out who were criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also said that prior to his visit to the Capitol he met with members of President Jimmy Carter\u2019s family at Blair House. Asked about potentially acquiring Greenland via military action, Trump said he was pleased with the reception his son and other representatives received during a visit there on Tuesday. \u201cIt was like a lovefest,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that the wildfires ripping through the Los Angeles region were \u201ca true tragedy\u201d and blamed the disaster in part on the state\u2019s Democratic governor. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill after meeting with Republican lawmakers, Trump criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom for the scarcity of water that has made it harder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}