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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 09:56 PM Nov 2019

Calif. governor hits back at Trump over wildfire criticism, threat to cut aid

Source: Washington Post

Calif. governor hits back at Trump over wildfire criticism, threat to cut aid

By Kim Bellware
11/3/2019, 3:51:39 p.m.

President Trump on Sunday criticized California’s Democratic governor for his handling of wildfires and made a vague threat to cut aid as blazes continue to burn in the northern and southern parts of the state. The comments are the latest installment of the president’s long-standing grievance with California, a state that has clashed with Trump’s administration, particularly on issues of environmental regulation.

In Trump’s first significant mention of California’s wildfires on Twitter since the massive Kincade Fire broke out in late October, the president accused Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of doing a “terrible” job of forest management.

Newsom later responded with his own tweet: “You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.” The governor’s criticism was a jab at Trump’s long-standing refusal to acknowledge the impact of climate change or the man-made factors that accelerate it.

As he has before, Trump made several erroneous claims about the causes of and potential solutions for the wildfires while writing that he had told Newsom previously to “clean” the forest floors.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The Governor of California, @GavinNewsom, has done a terrible job of forest management. I told him from the first day we met that he must “clean” his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him. Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers....





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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/03/california-burns-trump-slams-gov-newsom-over-wildfire-response/
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Calif. governor hits back at Trump over wildfire criticism, threat to cut aid (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2019 OP
Gee... Newest Reality Nov 2019 #1
At the chopper trump called the CA governor " a child " lunasun Nov 2019 #2
there's a bit of truth in the need to "clean" the forest floors gristy Nov 2019 #3
And some plants have evolved to release their seeds *only* after a fire. eppur_se_muova Nov 2019 #4
There isn't a forest, per se, where it's burning in So Cal. It's chaparral, or people's yards. Shrike47 Nov 2019 #5

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Gee...
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 10:02 PM
Nov 2019

At the very least, Trump could send tens of thousands of shop vacs and extension cords for cleaning the forest floors, huh?

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
2. At the chopper trump called the CA governor " a child "
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 10:17 PM
Nov 2019

Coming from this heartless brainless infantman, that makes me want to

Bet you never hear trumpo say “ Florida I wonder why it’s always Florida with the hurricanes Always the same place”

gristy

(10,667 posts)
3. there's a bit of truth in the need to "clean" the forest floors
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 10:25 PM
Nov 2019

Before white man settled the west, and before white man started suppressing fires, fires used to keep the landscape in balance. The forest floor would be kept "clean" by the occasional fire that passed through. Trees would flourish above the occasional wildfire that passed through, and the burned groundcover would replenish the forest floor.

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
4. And some plants have evolved to release their seeds *only* after a fire.
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 11:01 PM
Nov 2019

It gives their seedlings a better chance to survive, after all the competing underbrush, and even some trees, have been cleared away.

Absence of wildfires could cause some plants to go extinct.

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
5. There isn't a forest, per se, where it's burning in So Cal. It's chaparral, or people's yards.
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 11:07 PM
Nov 2019

What an idiot Trump is.

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