Trump, in Texas, Calls Harvey Recovery Response Effort a ‘Real Team’
After meeting at a Corpus Christi firehouse with state
and federal officials, the president flew to Austin, Tex., for another meeting with officials involved in responding to the flooding before returning to Washington.
Mr. Trump, who pushed aides to schedule a trip to Texas as early as possible after Harvey made landfall there on Friday night, settled on visiting Corpus Christi
because it was the closest he could get to the hardest-hit areas without disrupting recovery efforts, according to state officials.
WASHINGTON — President Trump traveled to storm-brushed Corpus Christi, Tex., on Tuesday to survey some of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Harvey
and demonstrate his personal commitment to a region still in the grips of a historic natural disaster.
At the meeting in Corpus Christi, Mr. Trump urged state and federal officials to make the response a model for the future.
Instead of touring shelters or visiting local residents in their homes
and businesses, Mr. Trump stuck close to emergency management officials — men in uniforms — and seemed most animated when he basked in the applause of an impromptu rally outside the Corpus Christi firehouse.
