--- title: Hurricane Harvey: Trump Tells FEMA Chief 'World Is Watching' description: President Trump told Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Brock Long that he was "doing a great job" with Hurricane Harvey on Saturday canonical: https://time.com/4916977/donald-trump-fema-chief-hurricane-harvey/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-26T13:23:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:10:31.463Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump to FEMA Chief on Hurricane Harvey: ‘The World Is Watching’ og:description: "You are doing a great job," Trump said Saturday morning og:url: https://time.com/4916977/donald-trump-fema-chief-hurricane-harvey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c302178b3256b3b/6988db42ab6d775d4f6af8d0/donald-trump-hurricane-harvey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: President Trump Departs White House For Camp David og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump to FEMA Chief on Hurricane Harvey: ‘The World Is Watching’ twitter:description: "You are doing a great job," Trump said Saturday morning twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c302178b3256b3b/6988db42ab6d775d4f6af8d0/donald-trump-hurricane-harvey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump to FEMA Chief on Hurricane Harvey: ‘The World Is Watching’ > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House before departing for Camp David on Aug. 25, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Aug 26, 2017 1:23 PM UTC President Donald Trump told Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Brock Long that he was “doing a great job” Saturday morning, as [Hurricane Harvey](http://time.com/4915462/texas-hurricane-harvey-category-4/?xid=homepage) weakened but was still expected to bring “life-threatening, catastrophic flooding” to [southeast Texas](http://time.com/4916543/hurricane-harvey-path-map-track-texas/?xid=homepage). “You are doing a great job – the world is watching! Be safe,” Trump tweeted Saturday, sharing a tweet Long posted Friday morning about preparing for the storm to make landfall. Trump later added: “Closely monitoring #HurricaneHarvey from Camp David. We are leaving nothing to chance. City, State and Federal Govs. working great together!” Trump also responded to Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who on Friday [told Trump](https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/901065715767164928) to “keep on top of hurricane Harvey” and urged him to be more prepared than President George W. Bush was for Hurricane Katrina in 2005\. “So far, so good!” Trump said in response on Saturday morning. > [](https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/901065715767164928) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/901407059547226112) [Hurricane Harvey](http://time.com/4916287/hurricane-harvey-risks-dangers/?xid=homepage) made landfall Friday night as a Category 4 storm but was downgraded early Saturday to Category 1\. Weather officials said flooding is still expected to become “catastrophic” over the next few days. “Citizens of TX, this is now turning into a deadly inland event,” Long [tweeted](https://twitter.com/FEMA%5FBrock/status/901376924169142272) Saturday morning. “Thoughts and prayers are with you.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4916977/donald-trump-fema-chief-hurricane-harvey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4916977/donald-trump-fema-chief-hurricane-harvey/"},"headline":"Donald Trump to FEMA Chief on Hurricane Harvey: ‘The World Is Watching’","datePublished":"2017-08-26T13:23:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:10:31.463Z","description":"\"You are doing a great job,\" Trump said Saturday morning","url":"https://time.com/4916977/donald-trump-fema-chief-hurricane-harvey/","keywords":["Donald Trump","weather","Texas","White House","onetime","hurricane harvey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c302178b3256b3b/6988db42ab6d775d4f6af8d0/donald-trump-hurricane-harvey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c302178b3256b3b/6988db42ab6d775d4f6af8d0/donald-trump-hurricane-harvey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Departs White House For Camp David","caption":"President Trump Departs White House For Camp David","creditText":"Alex Wong/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4916977/donald-trump-fema-chief-hurricane-harvey/","name":"Donald Trump to FEMA Chief on Hurricane Harvey: ‘The World Is Watching’"}}]}] ```