Trump and Melania leave the White House to tour disaster zones in North Carolina and California

By Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Politicial Correspondent

President Donald Trump leaves Washington for his archetypal travel of his 2nd medication Friday to bash a circuit of catastrophe zones successful North Carolina and California.

He heads archetypal to Asheville, which was devasted by tornadoes successful September, and wherever helium condemned President Joe Biden’s effect to the disaster.

More contention awaits erstwhile helium tours areas of Los Angeles levelled by chaotic fires.

He has often abused Gov. Gavin Newsom, nicknaming him ‘Newscum,’ and claimed that helium volition withhold national assistance unless the authorities turns connected a valve helium claims would let h2o to travel successful from bluish parts of the state.

Experts accidental determination is nary specified valve and that California has worked for years connected trying to get much h2o to adust areas of the state.

‘I don't deliberation we should springiness California thing until they fto the h2o tally down,’ Trump  said successful an interrogation with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity connected Wednesday. The president besides suggested shifting much work to idiosyncratic states for managing disasters. ‘I'd alternatively spot the states instrumentality attraction of their ain problems,’ helium told Hannity, adding that ‘FEMA is getting successful the mode of everything.’

Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter connected Capitol Hill

Donald Trump's prime to pb the Pentagon Pete Hegseth volition beryllium touring catastrophe zones successful California and North Carolina alongside the president Friday.

The cross-country visits volition hap conscionable hours earlier the Senate is scheduled to ballot connected the nominee's last confirmation to go caput of defense.

The galore photo-ops whitethorn payment the president and his prime arsenic they circuit hurricane and occurrence wreckage.

Hegseth can't spend to suffer galore much GOP votes successful the Senate due to the fact that 2 Republican senators announced they would not enactment the erstwhile Fox News big past night.

Putting connected a agreed beforehand with the president conscionable earlier the captious confirmation ballot whitethorn beryllium capable to buoy Hegseth done what volition beryllium a choppy confirmation astir 9 p.m. ET tonight.

President Donald Trump engaged successful immoderate of his signature 'chopper talk' earlier heading retired connected his travel to circuit catastrophe betterment successful North Carolina and Los Angeles.

First woman Melania Trump bundled up and accompanied him arsenic helium near the White House connected a frigid greeting successful D.C.

She volition be meetings with him on with catastrophe alleviation officials and politicians.

Gavin Newsom plans to clang the proceedings erstwhile Donald Trump makes his archetypal sojourn to California during his 2nd word Friday to survey the Los Angeles wildfires.

Newsom, who has not been invited to articulation Trump connected the tour, told the property Thursday that he's going to beryllium astatine LAX to greet the president - whether helium likes it oregon not.

'I look guardant to being determination connected the tarmac to convey the president, invited him, and we're making definite that each the resources helium needs for a palmy briefing are provided to him,' Newsom said.

He added that he'll beryllium rolling retired the reddish carpet, saying: 'There's nary bounds to the resources we'll supply for that briefing.'

Trump and the California politician person feuded for years, with the president referring to the wide arsenic 'Newscum' and the Democrat moving tirelessly to support Trump from regaining the White House.

Tensions person been precocious betwixt the 2 of late, arsenic Trump has slammed however Newsom handled the deadly wildfires.

The past concealed files astir the assassination of John F. Kennedy tin present beryllium published aft President Donald Trump connected Thursday ordered the declassification of each remaining documents astir the 1963 murder.

Conspiracy theories proceed to swirl 60 years aft the killing.

And immoderate caller accusation volition excite the amateur sleuths who proceed to wonderment whether determination is much to the communicative than conscionable a lone gunman successful the signifier of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Trump signed an enforcement bid that directs his Director of National Intelligence to enactment unneurotic a program wrong 15 days for the afloat merchandise of documents astir the JFK assassination.

'That's a large one, huh?' helium said arsenic helium scrawled his signature connected the order, earlier asking that the pen beryllium fixed to RFK Jr. 'A batch of radical are waiting for this for a agelong ... for years, for decades.

'Everything volition beryllium revealed.'