Trump slams LA mayor for keeping residents from clearing fire ravaged properties quickly

Bass said that the city of Los Angeles will be cleaning out the burned debris in the city in order to get people residents back in their houses "immediately." However, Trump said that people were telling him that Californians have been told that they must wait 18 months to get a permit to clean up their lots.

Bass said that people will be able to go "back soon" to their lots that have been burned up by the fires and claimed that Californians will be able to go back to their properties "within a week."

Trump shot back, "That's a long time, a week, I'll be honest. Everyone's standing in front of their house. They want to go to work, but they're not allowed to do it."

Bass said that they were keeping people from cleaning up their lots because they wanted residents to "stay safe."

Trump shot back again, "A week is actually a long time the way I look at it, I watch hundreds of people standing in front of their lots and they're not allowed to go in. It's all burnt. It's gone. It's done. Nothing's going to happen to it. It's not going to burn anymore. There's nothing to burn. There's almost nothing to burn. And they want to go in there. The people are all over the place. They're standing and I say 'Why aren't you going in?' 'We're trying to get a permit,' and the permit is gonna take them 18 months."

Trump then pointed to multiple people at the conference who he said had told him they had to wait 18 months to get a permit to clean up their lots. One woman shouted from the audience that she had not been allowed by the city to go back to her property.

"No, no," Bass shot back about the permits. "That's not true, you can hold me to that," the Daily Mail reported. Trump then said people should be able to start tonight.