It was a presidential trip to a deluged state where the president didn't meet a single storm victim, see an inch of rain or get near a flooded street.

But the day-long visit, during which President Donald Trump spent far more time in the air than on the ground, gave the optics-obsessed president some of the visuals he wanted, as he checked in on the government apparatus working on relief efforts and was buoyed by a roaring crowd of locals.