Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass acknowledged the deadly firestorm was the “largest scale” but pointlessly told locals to just visit a “URL”. He was condemned as “America's most incompetent politician” after failing to address a fire emergency information website. One. “
Bass, who had already faced harsh criticism for traveling to Ghana as wildfires ravaged the city and cutting the fire department's budget, staggered to the press conference Wednesday, shortly after returning to the United States. I made a mistake.
“If you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter are available. All of this can be found at the URL,” the agitated mayor said while reading from the script.
“Food, water, medicine, bags and preparations, this is an active situation and we conserve water as much as we can. We want to have it in case we need more water,” she said. said vaguely.
“This firestorm is the biggest yet,” she added.
The backlash against the first-term mayor was swift, with many on social media slamming her as an embarrassment.
One user raged at X, saying, “Fire this idiot right now,” while Bass said, “I mean Joe Biden, I don't know what she's talking about!”
“Mayor Karen Bass literally just read out the word 'URL' from the script during a press conference instead of an emergency website for fire victims. I think we have a new winner in America’s most incompetent politician,” complained another.
“Karen Bass needs to resign…this is so embarrassing,” one X user criticized.
Her redundant gaffe finally arrived back in the United States on Wednesday, when footage of a bus showing a blank expression and refusing to answer questions as it witnessed a city in flames went viral on social media. It happened to.
“Do we owe the citizens an apology for being absent while our house was on fire, or do we regret that the mayor's wife cut the fire department's budget by millions of dollars?” asked Sky News reporter David Blevins. The bus was getting off the plane.
“Is there anything you would like to say to the people today?” he added.
The absentee mayor has been widely derided for being in Africa, 11,400 miles away, to attend the inauguration of Ghana's president as wildfires began raging in Los Angeles earlier this week.
Many are blaming Bass for the ongoing inferno after it was revealed that he cut $17.6 million from the Los Angeles Fire Department's budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year.
She addressed her absence at a late afternoon press conference, insisting she had done her best to return and help.
“I took the quickest route home, including on a military plane, which made communication easier,” Bass said.
“So I was able to be on the phone throughout the flight.”
