President Donald Trump’s Friday night press conference in Pacific Palisades went off the rails after he went back and forth with Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) about state policy on forest management, water, FEMA, and private insurance companies.
Trump landed late Friday afternoon in Los Angeles, where he was greeted by Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom. Trump and Newsom have traded barbs publicly about this month’s deadly L.A. County wildfires.
While seated next to First Lady Melania Trump and one chair over from L.A. Mayor Karen Bass at Friday’s conference, Trump found another nemesis in Sherman.
The longtime House Democrat had already confronted Trump about making federal aid for devastated communities in the area conditional.
Minutes later, the two sparred over everything from rainwater collection to FEMA and insurance companies – many of which canceled policies in recent months for those who lost everything to fire:
TRUMP: FEMA is incompetently run and it costs …