The state’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom invited Trump last week, but the president-elect told NBC News that he felt it was “better if I went as president.”

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has sharply criticized California's response to devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, on Saturday said he would most likely pay a visit to the area next week after his inauguration.

Trump told "Meet the Press" that he was going to have visited LA County already, but "thought it would be better if I went as president."

The president-elect has repeatedly threatened to withhold disaster relief money from California amid an ongoing feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom. Unlike his goals of annexing Greenland and Canada or re-taking the Panama Canal, withholding disaster relief is something Trump can easily do, according to an expert.

President-elect Donald Trump, in perhaps his first official trip after being inaugurated Monday, will likely visit the Los Angeles area to survey wildfire damage late next week.

President-elect Donald Trump will likely travel to California next week to view the aftermath of the devastating wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area, he told NBC News' "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview Saturday.

Trump will be sworn in Monday and arrive late next week to survey the wildfires catastrophe The post Donald Trump to Visit Los Angeles Wildfires Devastation in First Official Trip as President appeared first on TheWrap.

The first official trip of Trump's second administration will be to visit areas devastated by fires in California.