President Donald Trump is planning to travel to California to survey the wildfire damage in his first presidential visit since his inauguration.

President Donald Trump is heading into the fifth day of his second term in office, striving to remake the traditional boundaries of Washington by asserting unprecedented executive power. The president is also heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles,

President Donald Trump will visit California to see the damage caused by wildfires around Los Angeles. FEMA has been involved in response efforts there.

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Los Angeles Friday to survey neighborhoods ravaged by the fires. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

: After some contentious moments in which he blamed state and federal officials over water and forest management as contributors to the devastating fires, President Donald Trump told a gathering of local Los Angeles elected officials,

California should, then, follow a University of Chicago conclusion: “Wildfire emissions need to be a key part of climate policy if California is going to meet its emission reduction goals.” Instead, Newsom and company use climate change as an excuse, suggesting in essence that their hands are tied until we reverse the Earth’s climate trajectory.

Advisers to California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the week monitoring new White House advance staffers’ social media accounts, hoping for clues for where President Donald Trump might be headed when he lands in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon to talk about the wildfire damage.