His first stop was in the Asheville area in the western part of the state.
Trump toured devastation caused by Hurricane Helene just outside Asheville, North Carolina, and later delivered remarks to the press where he began by slamming the job from the White House for their hurricane response, continuing to push false claims about FEMA assistance in the wake of violence against FEMA workers.
"The power of nature. Nothing you can do about it, but you got to get a little bit better crew in to do a better job than has been done by the White House. It's been not good. Not good. I'm here today in western North Carolina to express a simple message to the incredible people of the state, I'm with you, and the American people are with you all the way," Trump said.
Later, he pushed false claims about the allocation of FEMA assistance, once again falsely saying that money dedicated to hurricane relief was going to offer assistance to migrants unaffected by the storm.
"FEMA has done a very poor job ... They had spent hundreds of millions of dollars doing other things, things that I don't think bear any relationship to this money, there was, they were not supposed to be spending the money on taking in illegal migrants, maybe so they could vote in the election. Because that's what a lot of people are saying. That's why they're doing it," Trump falsely said.
Gov. Roy Cooper, at a different event Monday, stressed that the "deliberate disinformation and misinformation ... needs to stop."
"It hurts the very people we are all trying to help," he said. "It discourages and makes people fearful of signing up for help. It enables scam artists and it hurts the morale of government officials, first responders and soldiers who are on the ground trying to help."
Cooper said the White House "responded quickly and positively to our request from FEMA, which has had 1,400 staff on the ground and has registered 206,000 people for individual assistance, and distributed $124 million directly to people who need it."
"As for long-term recovery, state and local government will be all in, along with the federal government," Cooper said. "This will take billions of dollars and years of bipartisan focus from everyone working together to make it happen -- from new roads and bridges to public building to water supplies to people's homes."
After his visit to Asheville, Trump traveled to Greenville to hold a rally at 3 p.m. He then traveled to Concord for another rally Monday evening.
Tuesday, Trump will also hold a rally in Greensboro.
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