Overview

• President Donald Trump labeled Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass "grossly incompetent" over the Pacific Palisades wildfires and repeated disputed claims about permits and emergency water use.
• Real America's Voice correspondent Brian Glenn asked Trump whether he would back a congressional investigation into Newsom over policies he tied to the deaths of 12 seniors, and Trump did not commit to supporting one.
• Trump asserted he "saved Los Angeles" and "saved the Olympics" by deploying National Guard troops to the city in June, a deployment U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled illegal on Tuesday.
• Newsom responded on X with a post suggesting the president keeps repeating falsehoods, framing it as a question about dementia and calling the water narrative a "crazy conspiracy."
• The exchange follows devastating Palisades fires that destroyed thousands of structures and homes, and comes as Trump has threatened to send troops back to California despite the court ruling.