: 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,

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.

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.

Donald Trump has named two conditions that he said he will need to see before agreeing to provide federal disaster relief to California.