President Trump said he will visit Central Texas on Friday as the state recovers after more than 100 people, including at least 30 children, were confirmed dead from the flash floods of July Fourth.
Mr. Trump also said first lady Melania Trump will accompany him on the trip.
“We will be going down on Friday with the first lady. We will be taking a trip, and we don’t want to get in anyone’s way because that’s what happens when the president goes. I don’t want anyone to focus on us,” Mr. Trump said Tuesday at a meeting with his Cabinet secretaries.
Tuesday’s announcement was the first time he confirmed the visit.
He didn’t say where in Texas he would visit. Many of the communities wrecked by the flooding are in Kerr County, 65 miles northwest of San Antonio, in the heart of the Texas Hill Country.
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