Trump's Tweets As California Burns: "Strikingly Ignorant", "Comedically Ill-Informed", “Gobbledygook Bullshit” & "Unmitigated Crap"

The Stupid, It Literally Burns!

 Lisa Friedman / New York Times:

Trump Says California Is Wasting Water as Fires Burn.  California Disagrees.  —  In his first remarks on the deadly wildfires that have raged in California, killing at least seven people and forcing thousands to flee, President Trump blamed the blazes on the state's environmental policies.

Discussion:

Umair Irfan / Vox:   Donald Trump has some thoughts on fighting wildfires. They're nonsense.

Andrew Freedman / Axios:   Trump blames environmental laws as California burns

Rosa Furneaux / Mother Jones:   We Asked a California Water Expert to Make Sense of Donald Trump's Moronic Wildfire Tweets

Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:   In a strikingly ignorant tweet, Trump gets almost everything about California wildfires wrong

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall:   Trump Blames Poor Environmental Laws For California Wildfires

Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:   California fire officials say they have plenty of water to fight wildfires, despite Trump's tweet

No one has the slightest idea what he's squawking about:

"California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized,” the President tweeted. “It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire spreading!”

The tweet came just hours after the Trump administration declared the California wildfires a major disaster.

Trump’s Sunday evening tweet was soon followed-up with a second, similar tweet on Monday. In it, the president said: “Governor Jerry Brown must allow the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North and foolishly being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Can be used for fires, farming and everything else. Think of California with plenty of Water – Nice! Fast Federal govt. approvals.”

For its part, Cal Fire said it had “no idea” what Trump’s tweets were referring to. “We have plenty of water for the firefight,” they said in response. And a spokesperson for Gov Jerry Brown (D-CA) said “This doesn’t merit a response.”

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Wildfire expert Prof. Eric Kennedy tweeted that Trump’s tweet was “comedically ill-informed” adding “it’s near impossible to overstate how ridiculous this comment is.”

California climate and water expert Peter Gleick tweeted that Trump’s explanation was “gobbledygook bullshit” and “unmitigated crap.”

In a tweet directed at the President, he explained that “California’s forests are burning because of past severe drought and current extreme temperatures and weather, worsened by human-caused climate change, which you think, in your fantasy world, doesn’t exist.”

“On the water side, it boggles the mind,” as LeRoy Westerling, a leading expert on wildfires and climate change, told the San Francisco Chronicle. The UC Merced professor explained, “We do manage all of our rivers in California, and all the water is allocated many times over. So I’m not sure what he was recommending.”

This reporter cannot remember a time when the Golden State hasn't been under drought conditions; how could even a gullible dumbfuck like Drumpf believe that Calif.'s somehow not allowing the "Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North"? The merest logic & a working knowledge of gravity & geology suggests that if this mysterious "water coming from the North" flows freely it will end up in the Pacific.

Enough. Attempting reason w/ Trump or any of his cretinous cultists leads only to an infinite excursion on the Moebius strip of recursive idiocy & delusion.

We conclude w/ a gratuitous to obligatory selection.Blue Öyster Cult - "Burnin' for You" (10/9/1981)