Trump Tours Texas Flood Sites And Defends Officials Amid Mounting Questions About Response

KERRVILLE, TEXAS – JULY 11: President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott meet with local emergency services personnel as they survey flood damage along the Guadalupe River on July 11, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas. Trump traveled to Texas one week after flash flooding along the Guadalupe River swept through cities, mobile home parks and summer camps, killing 120 people. Ninety-six of those killed were in Kerr County, where the toll includes at least 36 children. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents quickly enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way. Trump met Friday with first responders and other state and local officials gathered at an emergency operations center inside an expo hall in Kerrville. The president said his administration “is doing everything it can to help Texas” and insisted that good people were running the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Since the July 4 disaster, the president has been conspicuously silent on his past, repeated promises to do away with FEMA.