After California has proven unwilling or unable to issue permits to rebuild from the Palisades Fires, President Trump has had enough and he is putting Lee Zeldin in charge of issuing the permits and federally overriding all state and local authority.

He is also putting a cherry on top and allowing them all to rebuild 10% larger if they want to.

Not only that, but he’s banning the addition of low-income housing in the area, which is what Newsom and his buddies wanted.

Win-Win-Win!

Watch here:

Longer clip here:

TRUMP:  I have to say this, Scott and I were talking about it. So Lee went out to California after the fire, which should have never happened if they would have let the water flow from the Pacific Northwest, which everybody has been telling him, including me. Now I just opened it up.

We literally sent in the military to open it up. But if they would have let it, you wouldn’t have had the fires because you would have had a little thing called the old-fashioned way: water in the fire hydrants, as opposed to empty fire hydrants. You would have had water, and most of the houses had the sprinklers on top.

No, there was no water in their sprinkler in their living room. All those fires wouldn’t have started. But they did start, and I will say that Lee, the most difficult permit was Lee. I went there a couple of days after the fire and met so many people on the streets who, in many cases, were fairly wealthy people, some very rich people.

Some of the best houses in California burned down. And I said to them, “So what do you want to do with this?” “Sir, we want to start immediately, immediately.” “Well, we’ll get you permits.” Now the hardest permit, Lee, was the federal permit. Is that right? He got everything done in 20 days, right?

The whole thing. Is that a correct statement? 20 days, sir. So he got everything done, 100% ready to go, and I went for a meeting and this mayor, who is a grossly incompetent person, she said, “We’re going to try and have the permits done within two years.” Remember that?

I got into an argument. I said, “You mean within two days, right?” She said no. And I am meeting all these people as I am walking along the streets with the fire departments and the policemen, and they are all devastated. You know, they are still smoldering.

They weren’t even allowed to go in their property. The local Environmental Protection Agency said, “Don’t go on your property.” Okay? We said, “It is okay. Don’t worry about it.” Any problem is gone. Any problem is burned. Any germs are burned. They are burned. They were burned.

Nobody has ever seen anything like it. But it was also unnecessary that it happened. But we got it all done in 20 days, the whole place, and yet now still, more than a year later, they don’t have permits. Almost nobody is building.

So I haven’t told this to Lee Zeldin yet, but I am going to put you in charge of getting permits. I think we’re going to override the local authorities because they’re never going to have it. And when I was told that there’s a provision where you can override the local authority to get things done in the case of a national emergency.

Because it really, to me, is a national emergency. What they’ve done to these people is horrible. It is just horrible. And they’ll still vote Democrat. Can you believe it? After all this, they just get used to it. Although I must say we converted many.

We will probably convert a lot more. But I just want them to get into their houses. And I don’t want a big section of the area built into low-income housing. They want to put low-income housing right smack in the middle of it, and that’s not the American dream. You know?

You didn’t do that, and low-income housing is great. I built a lot of low-income housing, but you don’t put it there. This is one of the richest neighborhoods in the world and we are going to let those people—and I recommended strongly—that everybody gets the approval, immediate approval to build a house.

And you give them a 10% bonus so they can build a house 10% larger than they had before, if they want, for all the suffering they have been caused. So they can build a little bit bigger house. So Lee, if you want, will you accept the job? Yeah. Huh?

He is under a lot of stress. Okay? All right? Override those people. Those people are incompetent. Between the mayor and the governor, they are incompetent. They will never get approved. They will never get approved.

So do whatever you can, Lee. There is a provision that you’re allowed to do it and we will, I’ll sign it in two seconds, frankly.

Well done sir, thank you!

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