When historic wildfires rage in blue California, President Donald Trump slams the state for doing a poor job of raking forests, and threatens to withhold federal relief funds.

When a devastating hurricane takes aim at red states along the Gulf of Mexico, Trump stands ready to assist.

The past two weeks have once again highlighted the White Houses favoritism for the people who live in states that helped elect Trump in 2016. With the 2020 election less than three months away, Trump has shown he has no intention of playing nice with the jurisdictions he stands little chance of winning in November. Along with threatening to punish fire-scorched California, he and his team have sought to paint other Democratic-run cities and states as dangerous, crime-ridden and mismanaged and insisted that Trump, even though he leads the nation, bears no blame for anything happening there.

These are Democratically-led cities and most with Democratic governors, White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway said Thursday during an appearance on Fox & Friends, when asked about ongoing unrest across the country. Its not Donald Trumps watch.

Its clear why the president would do this. As Mark Joseph Stern, a staff writer at Slate, wrote in a recent Twitter post : A president who knows he wont win blue states can punish them, sacrifice them, undercut them, trash them theres no electoral penalty. Those states dont matter to him. Their residents votes dont matter.