United States President Donald Trump visited a relief center for victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, posing for pictures and playing with children as part of a two-state tour of the flooded region.

Trump praised the fortitude of the victims, saying in Houston that “these are people that have done a fantastic job holding it together."

Trump tweeted after the visit that he had "just got back to the White House from the Great States of Texas and Louisiana, where things are going well. Such cooperation & coordination!"