President Trump is flaunting his bond with deep red Texas ahead of a trip there on Friday where he will assess deadly flooding that took the lives of more than 120 people.

Gov. Greg Abbot (R) has heaped praise on the administration this week for the federal response to the disaster, even as the Trump administration has made cuts to the nation’s climate and weather agencies and officials continue to push axing FEMA.

The camaraderie stands in stark contrast to the the California wildfires in January where Trump and that state’s Democratic-Gov. Gavin Newsom played a blame game for weeks over water access, the loss of thousands of structures and a dozen deaths.

Critics argued that Trump’s handling of both deadly disasters showcases how he tends to politicize such events.

Jeremy Edwards, a former Biden White House and FEMA spokesman said he suspects if the Texas flooding had occurred in a state run by a Democrat, Trump’s sentiments would be much different.

“I find it very hard to imagine that if this exact situation were to happen in a blue state with a Democratic governor, he would not immediately lambast them for steps that they did or didn’t take with regards to emergency alerts,” Edwards said

Other critics noted how Trump’s predecessors went to great lengths to support communities, no matter how they tended to lean politically.

“What I’d seen during the Obama administration and the Biden administration is........

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