That’s Trump saying to North Carolina that they “aren’t alone any longer” after Hurricane Helene during the campaign. After he was elected he went down there and said this:
President Donald Trump on Friday met with local officials in western North Carolina towns still recovering from Hurricane Helene, accusing the Biden administration of not doing enough to get aid where it’s needed, vowing to speed up recovery efforts and threatening to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency altogether.
“It doesn’t matter at this point. [former President Joe] Biden did a bad job,” Trump said during a roundtable with local officials in Fletcher, where he said some residents still don’t have drinking water and didn’t get sufficient financial compensation following the storm. “This is totally unacceptable, and I’ll be taking strong action.”
Here’s your strong action:
