President Donald Trump, left, speaks as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott listens during a roundtable discussion with first responders and local officials at Hill Country Youth Event Center in Kerrville, Texas, during a tour to observe flood damage, Friday, July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump on Friday toured the damage where at least 120 people died in floods last weekend — many of them children — and with many more still missing.
“It’s hard to believe the devastation,” Trump said. “Trees that are 100 years old just ripped out of the ground. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve seen a lot of bad ones. I’ve gone to a lot of hurricanes, a lot of tornadoes. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
He and first lady Melania Trump met with affected families and later spoke about how difficult it was to find the right words, when condolences didn’t seem enough.
“I mean, look, they’ve been devastated. They lost their child or two children, and just hard to believe … a little narrow river that becomes a monster,” he said.
At least 173 people are known to be missing after widespread flash flooding tore through Central Texas last weekend, killing at least36 children as rising waters in some cases ripped through summer camps while they slept.
“Unfortunately, they’re still looking. They’re still looking. There’s a lot of missing children,” Trump said, pledging that search teams would find everybody. “But it’s not an easy thing. You would think it would be easy. It’s very tough.”
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