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Trump greeted by Lancaster mayor during visit to Los Angeles area

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[Image via City of Lancaster website.]
LOS ANGELES – President Donald Trump traveled to the Los Angeles area Tuesday to meet with organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games and attend fundraising events in Beverly Hills.

Trump arrived aboard Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport and was greeted on the tarmac by Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris and Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu.

In a news release, Parris said he was “honored to represent the city of Lancaster in welcoming our President to California.”

“President Trump has been fighting for communities across America to combat crime, create strong middle-class jobs, and prioritize the interests of Americans,” Parris said in the news release.

Among those traveling with the president were adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.After his arrival at LAX, Trump climbed aboard a helicopter for a short trip to Santa Monica Airport, from which a motorcade carried him to the Montage Beverly Hills, where he arrived at 5:19 p.m. amid groups of dueling supporters and protesters chanting, “USA USA USA” and “Four more years” versus “Lock Him Up.”

Trump met with the LA2028 Olympic Committee officials and signed a document he said was the federal government’s “total support” of Los Angeles for the games.

Trump was joined at the meeting by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and McCarthy.

Trump fielded some shouted questions, including one about Los Angeles County’s homeless situation.

“We’re really taking a role in it,” Trump said. “I see it, I see what’s happening to LA, I see what’s happening to San Francisco, I see what’s happening to some great cities … you have needles, you have things that we don’t want to discuss all over the streets.”

Trump then participated in a fundraiser for Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee authorized by and composed of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and the Republican National Committee.

Democratic National Committee spokesman John Weber issued a statement calling Trump’s fundraising swing “shameful.”

“Just after proposing devastating cuts to California families’ Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Donald Trump is spending time with the only Californians he’s ever cared about: ultra-wealthy donors,” Weber said.

“Californians deserve a president who prioritizes the needs of working families over the demands of a few powerful special interests, and this November, we’ll send one to the White House.”

Trump most recently visited the Los Angeles area in September, attending a pair of fundraisers but making no public appearances. That trip also included a visit to San Diego, where he attended another fundraiser and traveled to Otay Mesa to view construction of the border wall.

Trump also visited Southern California last April, attending a fundraising event in Beverly Hills and a private dinner at his Rancho Palos Verdes golf club.

The visit was Trump’s fourth to the Los Angeles area as president. He has spent little time in the Los Angeles area during his administration, compared to his Democratic predecessor and various Democratic presidential hopefuls.

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35 comments for "Trump greeted by Lancaster mayor during visit to Los Angeles area"

  2. Trumpets – do you know he’s lying and just don’t care, or are you so stupid you believe Cheetosatan?

  3. How nice, con man in Chief and his local counterpart greet each other. I’m waiting for the Fuhrer to rename our country. He is using the 1930’s playbook and running with it. Take a look at pre WW2 Germany, discredit the Courts, Media etc. and trying to have only what they control, be released by only State Media, AKA Faux news. Let’s see how long it takes for Blagojovich to join the Administration.
    I left the Republican party over 20 years ago, never thought they would ever go this far.
    What a shame that Lancaster is represented by a person with only his own self interest in mind. All that associate with Trump either wear designer suits or orange jump suits. Sure Perris will land in the later.

  4. Parris represents a small but powerful group known as the Fern Street Mafia. Frankie V, Georgie R., Scottie E., Jimmy G., Tommy S. etc. They have made millions through insider deals, and so far only Tommy S. is doing jail time.

    Someday the voters of Lancaster may wake up and purge this cabal of corruption.

  5. Actually things have been proven and some folks ended up in jail. They were convicted by a jury of their peers. Unfortunately, they didn’t have a repuglican to run interference for them. Blocking witnesses from testifying, ignoring subpoenas, etc aren’t the actions of an innocent man.

  6. Parris does not represent all of Lancaster Residents , not all of Lancaster Residents share most of his ideas and the way he is handling things here much less supports Trump

    • Parris represents a small but powerful group known as the Fern Street Mafia. Frankie V, Georgie R., Scottie E., Jimmy G., Tommy S. etc. They have made millions through insider deals, and so far only Tommy S. is doing jail time.

      Someday the voters of Lancaster may wake up and purge this cabal of corruption.

  9. Can’t wait to see Liberals head spin when Trump wins 2020. Can’t wait to see them scream to the sky again.

    • No, voters are going to over correct this national nightmare and vote for Bernie Sanders. He will pick Tulsi Gabbard for V.P. Then we can watch the U.S. go down even faster with socialism.

      • “No, voters are going to over correct this national nightmare and vote for Bernie Sanders.”

        What would be the best thing to happen to our country in four long, destructive years. And when President Sanders takes over the White House, he’ll make MAGA really mean Make America Great Again, and add “ASFTA”, meaning “And Safe From Trumpers Always”!

        MAGAASFTA!!!!!!

  10. Parris has bashed Trump so much this is laughable. Parris is a wannabe. Looks like he was so butt hurt that Hofbauer got invited to the White House that he had to buy his way into a photo op. I wonder if Parris shared his birdie sounds idea with Trump.

  11. One mayor earned access to national policymakers. The other purchased it.

    Couldn’t stand to see Hofbauer meet with the President and you not get invited, could ya Wrex?

  12. Parris’s ugly, boastful, and horribly ubiquitous billboards are a hallmark of visual pollution that so casually desecrates the beauty of the Antelope Valley. Make a right turn here, a left there, or stopped at a red light, he seems to take a prideful pleasure reminding denizens of his wealth and status. I find it absolutely appropriate that he supports the criminal in the White House. Birds of a feather…..

  13. Decent Americans are “hysterical”. Republicans not so much.

    If your goal is to upset good people, why don’t you just go ahead and kick some puppies or drown a few kittens on national TV. That’ll REALLY piss us off!!

    • Wrong. Decent Americans can view the world with logic rather than the filter of emotions. Everything the Democrats have thrown at Trump has been disproven, multiple times. In a lot of ways, the accusations thrown at Trump are actually what the Democrats are being caught red handed for. Projection at its finest. Smoke and mirrors. Sleight of hand, executed very poorly.

      • Really, disproven? Really! Hump used political strong arming to keep himself in office. Study history a little. You and your ilk that voted this con man draft dodger into office are complicite in this. Too many comparisons to a 1930’s regime in Germany. Trump is using their playbook. History will not be kind to Trump and all those that support him.

    • Nothing tickles us more than p!$$ing you off, LOL. Wait until we take the House, Senate, POTUS and SCOTUS (for generations). Better make an emergency appointment with your shrinks, little snowflakes, ROFL.

      • LOL

        Hitler’s Reich: “a thousand years!”

        Gingrichs GOP: “a permanent Republican majority!”

        They didn’t last.

        And so too will the Trump/GOP soon pass. As in passing a huge turd and flushing.

        • Trumpocrats, Trumpublicans and Independent Trumpists: Now is our time to keep socialism ostracized, keep the military strong, keep us prosperous, keep citizens safe, and above all:

          ******* KEEP AMERICA GREAT ********

    • TRUMP 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, ………… Dems are getting hysterical, LMAO.

      MAGA, KAG, (and “CACA POOPOO” – Trump 2020*, your posts are really funny, thanks).

      • So, Trumpist#1, you now support the idea of a President for Life? Or, perhaps you would prefer Fuehrer for Life?

        • No, that’s ridiculous. For the next FIVE, you can just call him emperor for ever, supreme leader, grand poobah, big sahib, Dem smusher, maximum master, Pelosi pounder, Schiff smiter, large and in charge, or with all humility: just first citizen in command.

          I hope that clarifies the issue sufficiently and plainly enough for your remedial intellects.

          BTW: You remind me of someone we all know and love ?????

          • Propaganda: The art of selling lies. Presidents Trump’s lies are passed off to those who sincerely believe it is truth. He, through his very obvious attempt to divide this nation has been effective. The tribal mind-set that says if you’re not for us you are against us. This will destroy us, not an entity from outside coming in.

          • So, Trumpist#1, you would place the laws of the Constitution over any attempt by Trump to extend his term beyond the set limits, or would you place Trump over the Constitution?

            This is really a rhetorical question as you have already made it clear that you would choose the latter by your vast array of comments showing such. But, perhaps, in your fervent support, you may have not really examined your core values against what is actually happening with our government.

            This issue is far bigger than just one President.

          • Trump will be in prison in 2020, then you can just call him Pelosi’s Punk, Schiff’s Stooge, Nadler’s Knucklehead, Fatty in the Orange Jump Suit, Trustee Trump, Supreme Sucker, First Citizen of the Damned, Mango in Prison Stripes, Maximum Moron, Emperor of Sing-Sing, and/or Supreme Loser.

            I hope that clarifies his future status plainly enough for the jello between your ears that passes for an intellect, trumpdupe.

            BTW: there’s no such thing as a “remedial intellect”. Your made up phrase doesn’t make sense. You need to be schooled on trump corruption, as well as the meaning of the word “remedial”.