Politics & Government
President Trump To Visit California Next Week
President Donald Trump will head to the state he called a "disgrace" next week to view border wall prototypes.

LOS ANGELES, CA — After snubbing the Golden State that snubbed him his first year in office, President Donald Trump is finally coming to California.
Trump, the first president since Dwight Eisenhower not to visit the nation’s most populous state his first year in office, will head to California next week, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Trump is expected to hit the West Coast on Tuesday to peruse prototypes for his border wall and attend a Republican fundraiser. The visit will come exactly one week after Trump’s administration sued California, seeking to invalidate state laws that offer protection to immigrants in the country illegally. Tension between the president and the liberal state's leaders has been building for months with sparring lawsuits and Twitter feuds.
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Trump last month called California a "disgrace" and threatened to pull ICE agents out of the state.
“The president’s obsession with our state is growing more outrageous by the day,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein rebutted. “The president’s attacks are not only mean-spirited, they’re patently false."
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Since his election, Trump has largely shied away from hostile territory, shunning most states that voted against him. And there is no love lost between Trump and the Golden State, which went heavily for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and quickly staked itself out as ground zero for the political resistance of Trump’s presidency.
Trump, who spends most weekends visiting his private golf clubs, has yet to visit Trump National Golf Club in Palos Verdes since he took office. And since he took office, the once popular golf club has taken a beating with event bookings dropping dramatically and vandals using the greens to make political statements.
Before Trump, President Barack Obama was a frequent visitor of the state, attending LA area fundraisers and vacationing with his family in the Palm Springs area. The traffic jams caused by his motorcades irked residents, earning the nickname Obamajam. Trump’s rare visit is likely to trigger similar road closures as well as protests and counter-protests.
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Photo: President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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