{"id":4882,"date":"2025-01-14T16:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-he-thinks-trump-will-visit-california-wildfire-destruction\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:48:41","slug":"johnson-says-he-thinks-trump-will-visit-california-wildfire-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-he-thinks-trump-will-visit-california-wildfire-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson says he thinks Trump will visit California wildfire destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he thinks that President-elect Donald Trump will be visiting the site of the wildfire destruction in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to President Trump about 90 minutes ago,\u201d Johnson said during a press conference on Monday. \u201dI think he\u2019s planning to go make a trip himself to Southern California to see the disaster himself, and we will follow the administration\u2019s lead on this.\u201c He didn\u2019t specify expected timing.<\/p>\n<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom sent Trump a letter inviting him to visit the disaster area last week. A Newsom spokesperson said the governor had not heard back and was not sure if Newsom and Trump would meet. Trump has repeatedly blamed Newsom for the wildfires in social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we said in our invite to the president-elect, he needs to come see the catastrophic damage, meet with people who\u2019ve lost their homes, and get the facts instead of spreading misinformation from the sidelines,\u201d said Izzy Gardon, the Newsom spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>California Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, alongside Democratic Reps. Judy Chu, Brad Sherman, Ted Lieu and George Whitesides, who represent the areas hit by the wildfires, also sent a letter to Trump inviting him to survey the area.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who extended his sympathies for the people of California, also critiqued Newsom\u2019s policies in the press conference on Tuesday \u2014 though he didn\u2019t lean in as far as Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are natural disasters, of course, but if they are made much worse by human error and deliberative policy choices that were unwise, and were stated as such at the time, then I think that that\u2019s something that needs to be carefully regarded,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p><i>Blake Jones contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he thinks that President-elect Donald Trump will be visiting the site of the wildfire destruction in Southern California. \u201cI spoke to President Trump about 90 minutes ago,\u201d Johnson said during a press conference on Monday. \u201dI think he\u2019s planning to go make a trip himself to Southern California to see the [&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-4882","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\/4882","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=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}