SACRAMENTO, Calif. – President Donald Trump’s visit to the Golden State Monday morning brought hundreds of supporters out to McClellan Park in Sacramento, where they all hoped to catch a brief glimpse of the Commander in Chief.
One proud supporter, Marietta Francis, waved a Make America Great Again sign at Air Force One as President Trump touched down to meet with Governor Gavin Newsom and other fire and emergency officials.
“I’m just so thrilled that he’s here in my town where I was born and raised,” Francis exclaimed.
The Sacramento native believes the president’s visit to the Capitol City shows he cares about Californians as the state faces hundreds of wildfires that have left several people dead and more than three million acres burned.
During his visit, President Trump was briefed on the state of the wildfires raging across California.
Trump claimed that forest mismanagement is the real culprit for the state’s historic wildfire season and remained adamant that climate change was not the cause behind the destruction.
“It’ll start to get cooler, you just watch,” Trump said.
However, Gov. Newsom agreed to disagree with the president and reiterated that the flames across the state are due to hotter temperatures and drier forests.
One woman affected by the wildfires in Northern California, Robin Abington, doesn’t think that President Trump’s visit to California was genuine.
“He can’t even come to this area,” Abington said.
Abington lives in fire-stricken Butte County, which is about an hour away from Sacramento, and recently badly burned by the North Complex Fire. She says she’s lucky her house is still standing, but she’s seen the fires destroy many homes within her own community.
She believes the president should have witnessed the fires and damage for himself.
“You can’t count on him for anything. it’s heartbreaking because my best friend lost her house. My old man lost his house two years ago in the other fire,” Abington added.
Abington says she’s frustrated by the president’s lack of support the last four years and adds that she won’t be voting for him this election.
As for Francis, she’s proud of the work Trump has done so far.
“I didn’t vote for President Trump’s personality. I voted for his policies and I will vote for his policies again,” Francis noted.
Francis approves of Trump’s response to California’s wildfires and hopes she’ll get to call him president for four more years.
President Trump’s briefing in Sacramento County was his first visit to the state in almost two years. In 2018, he toured the town of Paradise after it was destroyed by the Camp Fire.