President Trump will visit California this weekend to meet with residents impacted by wildfires that have ravaged the state and killed at least 59 people.
The White House did not immediately announce the locations that Trump will visit during his second visit to the state as president, as firefighters continue to fight the blazes.
“The president will travel to California this Saturday to meet with individuals impacted by the wildfires. We will keep you updated on details as they are available,” White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said in a statement Thursday.
Wildfires are affecting both the northern and southern regions of California.
Authorities said Thursday that at least 56 people have died as a result of an ongoing Northern California blaze, with 130 others missing. The blaze is the most destructive in state history, with at least 7,600 homes destroyed.
Separately, Southern California wildfires have burned the Malibu mansions of celebrities and killed at least three people.
Trump issued a disaster declaration Monday, allowing for federal aid, saying on Twitter that he “[w]anted to respond quickly in order to alleviate some of the incredible suffering going on.”
Two days earlier, Trump tweeted during a trip to France that he may withhold unspecified federal funds due to alleged forest mismanagement.
“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” the president wrote on Twitter. “Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”
The visit will be Trump’s second to California as president. He lost the state to Hillary Clinton by nearly 30 percentage points in 2016.
Trump’s first trip to California as president occurred in March to inspect border wall prototypes.
