Newsom to Trump: ‘I Desperately Plead ... Help Us and We Will Help You, You’ll Be Elevated, Mr. President’

PSAKI: “I’m more interested from you and how damaging it is when you have somebody with that type of a platform, who is next week going to be the president of the United States, is injecting inaccurate information about the worst wildfires in in American history.”
Newsom: “Let me answer that by thanking president of the United States Joe Biden, who within 36 hours supported a major disaster declaration by text within a few minutes, later committed 100 — he could have just committed 75%, 90, he said 100% of all the costs for disaster recovery that took the time to meet with first responders, was here on the ground. I want to thank President Joe Biden. And then I want to offer that as an example to the incoming president of presidential leadership, a president of the United States of America being here for the American citizen. What’s not, I think, helpful or beneficial is the string of consciousness, these wild-eyed fantasies that somehow the state water project, we have reservoirs that are at or near historic highs full, completely full, that somehow there’s a magical spigot in California and Northern California that just can be turned on and all of a sudden there will be rain or water flowing everywhere. It’s not helpful. It’s damaging to the very foundation of the notion of what are facts, what are truths. And the fact that asymmetry that’s profound and consequential, amplified by people like, let’s be candid, Elon Musk and others, and that one-two punch is real. And it’s not just about this fire, That’s hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation that can divide a country on a myriad of issues. This is serious. And, you know, I get it. They want to take us, I get it, I’m not naive. I get the California derangement syndrome. I’ve been living with that for years and years. Newscum, you know, the same seventh grade — I remember the guy on Baltimore Avenue that called me Newscum. I was in seventh grade. I can handle that. We’ll leave that aside. I understand what they’re trying to do. I want to work with them. It’s not about me. It’s about people that we both represent, he represents and I represent. And I’m honored and proud to represent these folks. And I desperately plead with them, come out here, help us, and we will help you. You’ll be elevated, Mr. President. At the end of the day, you’ll be the one we all will go to and say, ‘Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you for living up to the values of this country. Thank you for having the backs of these families and these kids.’ I met a kid the other day, literally was driving away, their house was on fire in the Palisades, and the young daughter said, ‘Daddy, did you get my bunny?’ And he said, ‘I didn’t get your bunny.’ I got four kids. That’s what I hope the president of the United States, President Trump, has an opportunity to meet with that family.”