Texas, Donald Trump and flooding
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President Donald Trump suggested the tragic loss of life that occurred in Texas as a result of historic flooding could have been mitigated if the county had “bells... or something, go off.”In an interview with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump on her Fox News show,
Kristi Noem detailed how the federal government deployed resources and funds to Texas flood victims, signaling fundamental changes to FEMA under the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents quickly enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way.
"The first lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support and the anguish of our entire nation in the aftermath of this really horrific and deadly flood," Trump said as he spoke at a roundtable event with first responders and local officials.
"It’s hard to believe the devastation," Trump said. "Trees that are 100 years old just ripped out of the ground. I've never seen anything like this, and I've seen a lot of bad ones."
Texas, joins 'Fox News Sunday' to discuss his experience walking President Donald Trump around the destruction caused by floods in Kerr County, Texas.
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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited Central Texas Friday to survey the devastation wrought by last week's deadly flooding.
Donald Trump has suggested that Texans were given “a lot of warning” ahead of the devastating floods in the state. “The way this happened, there was a very early warning – warned a day before, they warned even two days before,