Trump, in Texas, Calls Harvey Recovery Response Effort a ‘Real Team’<br />After meeting at a Corpus Christi firehouse with state<br />and federal officials, the president flew to Austin, Tex., for another meeting with officials involved in responding to the flooding before returning to Washington.<br />Mr. Trump, who pushed aides to schedule a trip to Texas as early as possible after Harvey made landfall there on Friday night, settled on visiting Corpus Christi<br />because it was the closest he could get to the hardest-hit areas without disrupting recovery efforts, according to state officials.<br />WASHINGTON — President Trump traveled to storm-brushed Corpus Christi, Tex., on Tuesday to survey some of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Harvey<br />and demonstrate his personal commitment to a region still in the grips of a historic natural disaster.<br />At the meeting in Corpus Christi, Mr. Trump urged state and federal officials to make the response a model for the future.<br />Instead of touring shelters or visiting local residents in their homes<br />and businesses, Mr. Trump stuck close to emergency management officials — men in uniforms — and seemed most animated when he basked in the applause of an impromptu rally outside the Corpus Christi firehouse.
