President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived in North Carolina to visit areas and people affected by Hurricane Helene.
Trump told the media:
Thought I was going to California. I said, no, I’m stopping in North Carolina first because they’ve been abused by what’s happened. I mean, it’s terrible. It should have been done, it should have been. A lot of things should have happened that didn’t happen. So we’re here. We’re going to fix it out. We’re working with the gentleman behind me, and you know who they are, and we’re going to fix it, and we’re going to fix it as fast as you can. It’s a massive amount of damage. FEMA has really let us down, let the country down. And I don’t know if that’s Biden’s Fault or whose fault it is, but we’re going to take over and we’re going to do a good job.We’re going to assign Mr. Watley, who’s fantastic, frankly, and the governor and everybody else that’s going to work. We’re going to supply the money, supply a lot of the money, maybe you have to chip in something. You chip in a little something like maybe 25% or whatever.But we’re going to get it done as quickly as we can. And we want to take care of the people of North Carolina. It’s so interesting. Everybody’s talking about California, and that’s a mess, but, I said I’m not going to California until I stop in North Carolina. So here we are. We’re going to go visit the site and we’re going to work with probably three of the congressmen, Republican congressmen, who’ve been fantastic, whose areas have been affected.And with Michael Watley, the governor and whoever else is, we decide to get involved. Probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job and we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA. I like, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it. When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it, meaning the state takes care of it. To have a group of people come in from an area that don’t even know where they’re going in order to solve immediately a problem is something that never worked for me. But this is probably one of the best examples of it not working. And there’s been some others, like in Louisiana, et cetera.So we’re going to be doing something on FEMA that I think most people agree. I’d like to see the states take care of disasters. Let the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happened, and I think you’re going to find it a lot less expensive. You’ll do it for less than half, and you’re going to get a lot quicker response, so that seems to be the recommendation, but we’ll be making that recommendation.Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to go to the site, now, and we’re going to figure out a plan for really demolition and cleaning, because not a lot has been done and we’re very disappointed in the Biden administration, but we’re going to make up for lost time, and I said I do that and this is about the earliest we could possibly be here.
Trump promised to cut all the red tape to allow North Carolina to quickly rebuild.
Trump met with hurricane survivors.
He handed the microphone to many of them, allowing them to tell their stories.
Matt Van Swol has been documenting the area since the hurricane hit in September, constantly calling out former President Joe Biden’s administration and FEMA for doing little.
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