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Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been ripped as the most “incompetent politician in America” after she managed to botch a fire emergency information website address by pointlessly telling locals to just visit “URL” — even while admitting the deadly firestorm is “the big one.”
Bass made the blunder as she stumbled her way through a press conference Wednesday soon after returning to the US, having already faced scorching criticism for traveling to Ghana as the wildfires ravaged her city and for slashing the fire department’s budget.
“If you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available. All of this can be found at URL,” the flailing mayor said as she read from a script.
“Food, water, medicine, a bag packed and ready again, this is an active situation and conserve water to the extent that you can. We want to make sure that we are ready if we need more water,” she said, vaguely.
“This firestorm is the big one,” she added at one point.
The backlash against the first-term mayor was swift — with many on social media blasting her as an embarrassment.
“FIRE THIS DUMBASS NOW,” one user raged on X, saying Bass was “going all Joe Biden, not knowing what she’s saying!”
“Mayor Karen Bass literally just read the words ‘URL’ off her script during the press conference instead of the emergency website for the victims of the fire. I think we have a new winner for most incompetent politician in America,” another griped.
One X user chimed in: “Karen Bass needs to resign… this is so embarrassing.”
Her redundant gaffe came as footage was going viral on social media of a stone-faced Bass refusing to answer questions when she finally returned to the US on Wednesday to find her city up in flames.
“Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning, and do you regret cutting the Fire Department budget by millions of dollars madame mayor?” Sky News reporter David Blevins asked as Bass was getting off her flight.
“Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?” he added.
The absent mayor has been widely ridiculed for being 7,400 miles away in Africa to attend the inauguration of Ghana’s president as wildfires started devouring Los Angeles earlier this week.
Many have blamed Bass for the ongoing inferno after it emerged she cut $17.6 million from the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year.
She addressed her absence during the late afternoon press conference, claiming she did her best to return and help.
“I took the fastest route back, which included being on a military plane, which facilitated our communications,” Bass said.
“So I was able to be on the phone the entire time of the flight.”
