Donald Trump surveys California fire damage with Gavin Newsom

President Donald Trump ‘awkwardly’ toured the damage from the California wildfires with the ex-husband of his son’s girlfriend.

Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom has been trading insults with Trump for most of the year, but grievances were set aside during the visit of the devastation caused by the so-called Camp Fire.

However, Twitter was ablaze with comments about how strange it is that Trump and Newsom were together considering that Donald Trump Jr is currently dating Newsom’s ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle.

‘Amazingly, Gavin Newsom, the governer-elect [sic] of California, used to be married to Junior’s current paramour, Fox News newsreader Kimberly Guilfoyle. so he’s almost a Trump family member,’ quipped one Twitter user. 

President Donald Trump ‘awkwardly’ toured the damage from the California wildfires with Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, the ex-husband of his son’s girlfriend. Pictured, from left to right: Newsom, Trump and Paradise Mayor Jody Jones visit a neighborhood destroyed by the wildfires on Saturday

Guilfoyle and Newsom, who was a San Francisco city supervisor at the time, married in 2001. Pictured: Guilfoyle and Newsom in March 2004

In January 2005, Guilfoyle filed for divorce from Newsom due to 'the strain of a bi-coastal marriage'. Pictured: Guilfoyle and Trump Jr, in August 2018

Guilfoyle and Newsom, who was a San Francisco city supervisor at the time, married in 2001. In January 2005, Guilfoyle filed for divorce from Newsom due to ‘the strain of a bi-coastal marriage’. Pictured: Guilfoyle and Newsom in March 2004, left, and Guilfoyle and Trump Jr, in August 2018, right

Guilfoyle and Newsom, who was a San Francisco city supervisor at the time, married in 2001. Two years later, Newsom became mayor of the city.

In January 2005, Guilfoyle filed for divorce from Newsom due to ‘the strain of a bi-coastal marriage’.

In May 2018, news leaked that Guilfoyle was dating Trump Jr as he was going through a divorce with wife Vanessa Trump.

President Trump had made only one previous trip as president to California, a deeply Democratic and liberal state that he has blamed for a pair of overheated crises, illegal immigration and voter fraud. 

He has also been at odds with California’s Democratic-led government, but differences were generally put aside as Governor Jerry Brown and Newsom joined Trump in surveying the wildfire damage.

‘We’re going to have to work quickly,’ Trump said near the crumpled foundations of Paradise homes and twisted steel of melted cars. 

‘Hopefully this is going to be the last of these because this was a really, really bad one.’ 

At least 79 people have died across California, and authorities are trying to locate more than 1,000 people, though not all are believed missing.

Newsom has been trading insults with Trump for most of the year, but grievances were set aside during the visit of the devastation caused by the so-called Camp Fire. Pictured: Newsom and Trump view damage from wildfires in Paradise on Saturday

Newsom has been trading insults with Trump for most of the year, but grievances were set aside during the visit of the devastation caused by the so-called Camp Fire. Pictured: Newsom and Trump view damage from wildfires in Paradise on Saturday

Trump greets Newsom as he disembarks from Air Force One upon arrival at Beale Air Force Base in California on Saturday

Trump greets Newsom as he disembarks from Air Force One upon arrival at Beale Air Force Base in California on Saturday

Newsom and Guilfoyle

In May 2018, news leaked that Guilfoyle was dating Trump Jr as he was going through a divorce with wife Vanessa Trump. Pictured: Trump Jr and Guilfoyle in October 2018, left, and Newsom and Guilfoyle

More than 5,500 fire personnel were battling the blaze that covered 228 square miles (590 square kilometers) and was about 50 percent contained, officials said.

When asked in Paradise if seeing the historic devastation, which stretched for miles and left neighborhoods destroyed and fields scorched, altered his opinion on climate change, Trump answered, ‘No.’

The president has long voiced skepticism about man’s impact on the climate and has been reluctant to assign blame to a warming earth for the increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters.  

Asked if he thought climate change played a role in the fires, Brown responded: ‘Yes. Yes. And we’ll let science determine this over a longer period of time.’

A reporter asked if climate change was discussed with the president, but Trump jumped in to say, ‘We didn’t discuss it.’

Brown and Newsom said they welcomed the president’s visit, with the governor suggesting they set aside political differences since it ‘now is a time to pull together for the people of California.’  

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