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According to Politico , the media were given no advance notice regarding Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's trip to meet with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto and were instead left "seething" because they didn't have enough time to prepare for the trip across the border to Mexico City. It wasn't just the traditional and leftwing media that were outraged.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency , along with other federal agencies, state and local governments, and volunteers from around the country, continues to support and assist flood survivors in Louisiana. Since President Obama's major disaster declaration to 20 parishes in South Louisiana, more than 128,000 households registered for FEMA assistance - with FEMA approving more than $385 million for survivors so far.
True to form, the unfailingly polite and good-natured Dana Perino didn't want to pile on criticism of President Obama for choosing not to cut his vacation short and visit flooded Baton Rouge, La. It would have been understandable if Perino had.
The Baton Rouge Police Department lost some 80 patrol cars during the recent flood and won't be able to replace them for several weeks, according to Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie. "It's crippling us," Dabadie said of the loss during a speech today to the Baton Rouge Rotary Club.
President Barack Obama will visit flooded Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday, four days after the Republican who wants his job flew into the city and chided the president for remaining on vacation during the disaster. Obama's visit to the flood zone, normally a routine presidential exercise, has become politically freighted thanks to his own decision not to interrupt his annual Martha's Vineyard vacation, criticism by Republican Donald Trump and the Baton Rouge newspaper, and memories of the botched federal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
This time, Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration and Louisiana's Department of Children and Family Services needs to get it right. In contrast with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, state and local governments have performed admirably with rescues, evacuations, and provision of food and shelter in response to catastrophic flooding that has overtaken the Baton Rouge area.
Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort has resigned from his position on the campaign, the Republican presidential nominee said in a statement Friday. "This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign," Trump said.
The visit comes as the Republican presidential nominee attempts to shift his public image from that of a bombastic entertainer to a presidential figure. Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and his wife Karen , talk to Louisiana officials including Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry , after arriving at the Baton Rouge Airport in Baton Rouge, La., Friday.
Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, will travel to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday to tour flood damage, a source familiar with the plans told CNN. The mammoth flooding in the area - 6.9 trillion gallons of rain pummeled Louisiana between August 8 and 14 -- damaged more than 40,000 homes and killed at least 13 people.
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke talks to the media at the Louisiana secretary of state's office in Baton Rouge, La., on July 22, after registering to run for the U.S. Senate. "The climate of this country has moved in my direction," Duke said as he announced his candidacy, one day after Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination for president.
Louisiana politicians are squabbling over who gets credit for a federal grant designed to alleviate Baton Rouge traffic on Interstate 10 over the Mississippi River Bridge by moving the Washington Street exit. , at old McKinley High School with U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond by his side, telling the world Louisiana will be getting between $20 million and $25 million in FASTLANE grant money to move the dreaded Washington Street exit.
Advocate staff photo by BRIANNA PACIORKA -- An East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office SWAT vehicle drives on Government St. toward the interstate after law enforcement moved in on protesters during a protest held on East Boulevard in downtown Baton Rouge on Sunday, July 10, 2016. Advocate staff photo by BRIANNA PACIORKA -- An East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office SWAT vehicle drives on Government St. toward the interstate after law enforcement moved in on protesters during a protest held on East Boulevard in downtown Baton Rouge on Sunday, July 10, 2016.
This spot nosed Guenon monkey, a native to West Africa is one of the 3 monkeys that was killed at The BREC Baton Rouge Zoo. Advocate file photo by ARTHUR D. LAUCK -- BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo's giraffe Hope plays with her granddaughter, Jewel, left, in this 2007 photo Advocate staff file photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING -- Two female Malayan tiger cubs born at BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo paw each other in November 2014, as they play after a nap.
With mothers of police violence victims on the stage and anti-gun protesters in the streets, Hillary Clinton and Democrats are giving gun control and efforts to curb police violence a starring role at their summer convention A stage hand adjusts the U.S. Flags on stage before the start of the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Tuesday, July 26, 2016. PHILADELPHIA - With mothers of police violence victims on the stage and anti-gun protesters in the streets, Hillary Clinton and Democrats are giving gun control and efforts to curb police violence a starring role at their summer convention.
Leah Daughtry, left, CEO of the Democratic National Convention Committee, stands on stage with Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, right, Friday, July 22, 2016, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The convention is scheduled to convene on Monday.
Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden listens during a news conference regarding the shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, July 18, 2016. Multiple police officers were killed and wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police in the city, sparking nightly protests across the city.
People attend a candlelight vigil for Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson, outside Istrouma High School, where he graduated in 2001, in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, July 19, 2016. Multiple police officers were killed an... .
President Barack Obama says the nation will get through the recent killings of police officers with the "love and empathy of public servants" like the ones who were targeted in recent days. In an open letter to the nation's law enforcement officers, Obama said overcoming will also require resilience, the grace of loved ones and the good will of activists.