President Donald Trump will make his first trip outside Washington since his inauguration, traveling to hurricane-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, and then to Los Angeles to view wildfire damage. Follow for live updates.

President Donald Trump on Friday is visiting North Carolina — a state he said “has been abandoned by the Democrats” as it rebuilds from Hurricane Helene’s flooding — with questions about disaster relief taking center stage in his first days back in office.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Western North Carolina on Friday to visit locals impacted by Hurricane Helene in late September.

Residents of Asheville and the rest of western North Carolina are still recovering from catastrophic flooding in September.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday, using the first trip of his second administration to tour areas where politics has clouded the response to deadly disasters.

President Donald Trump will be in western North Carolina on Friday to visit the area still trying to bounce back after Helene brought unprecedented flooding on Sept. 27, 2024.

Attorney General Jeff Jackson accused President Donald Trump of “creating legal uncertainty and denying fundamental rights to children born in this country.”

President Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 people charged in the U.S. Capitol riots Jan. 6, 2021 – including some from Western North Carolina.

I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said. Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.

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The General used data from the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to examine traffic camera laws in North Carolina