President Trump surveyed destruction in Pacific Palisades by air and on foot during his visit to Los Angeles County on Friday afternoon, but he did not visit the ravaged community of Altadena.

After a tour of areas damaged by the California wildfires, the president sparred with local leaders and blamed them for a wide variety of issues affecting the disaster response.

Speaking to reporters Friday morning at the White House before departing for hurricane-ravaged parts of North Carolina, then on to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, PresidentTrump again repeated his assertions that California is somehow diverting water away from the L.