president trump visits los angeles  president donald trump, who has blamed what he calls faulty water management for contributing to california wildfires and suggested conditioning federal recovery dollars on changes in state political policies, toured the fire-ravaged pacific palisades friday and vowed to "open the coffers" of the federal government and waive federal permits to expedite the rebuilding process. "i don't think you can realize how rough it is, how devastating it is until you see it," trump said of the fire damage. "i didn't realize. i saw a lot of bad things on television, but the extent of it, the size of it. we flew over it... it is devastation. it's incredible, it's really an incineration. even some of the chimneys came down. when you have chimneys come down you know that's pretty hot stuff and a lot of them were down." in a meeting with local, state and congressional leaders following the tour, trump assured them "the federal government is standing behind you 100%." he noted that the fires are "already the most expensive natural disaster, they say, in american history. that's pretty amazing."
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