Hey, guys, and welcome back to Normally the show with Normalish takes for when the news gets weird.

I'm Mary Catherine Ham.

I'm Carol Markowitz.

Hey, Mary Catherine.

What an exciting weekend.

Oh, my goodness.

There's a lot going on.

In the new administration, which is not very old, there are nonetheless results on both a domestic

and a foreign relations front. I'm not tired of winning yet.

Shall I start with domestic?

President Trump traveled to two disaster areas on the first Friday of his administration. He had announced earlier he was going to go to L.A. to areas on the first Friday of his administration.

He had announced earlier he was going to go to L.A. to check on the wildfires, which I appreciated.

He added a trip that he announced on inauguration day, I believe, to Western North Carolina,

which has been really, like, disappointinglyingly abandoned both in attention and resources

since helene flooded the whole place in uh in september and october of uh two thousand

twenty four so we went there what now it's been a while it's been four And, you know, I check back in periodically because I'm from North Carolina.

A lot of media doesn't check back in.

And I've talked to people on the ground who are just saying there's no one here.

There's no one who cares.

There's no one reporting on it aside from local news.

There's no one sending resources or There's no one reporting on it aside from local news. There's no one,

there's no one sending resources or people. And these are folks who are doing daily work on the ground. So if there were resources there, they would be seeing them. They'd know. And there's just a

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