‘It’s All His Fault!’: Donald Trump Blames California Wildfires On Gov. Gavin Newsom
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Wildfires are currently ravaging much of Southern California, and while people are losing their homes and fleeing for their safety, most other people — compassionate, empathetic and generally well-adjusted people — are sending out their thoughts, prayers and well wishes, and are doing what they can to help with the relief effort. But not President-elect Donald Trump and the rest of the MAGA world, who have done nothing but shamefully politicize the disaster from the moment it began.
Predictably, Trump is blaming California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Trump recently spent the late-night hours the way he often does — by taking to his absurdly titled “Truth” Social platform, where he joined his minions in trivializing the tragedy in California by taking partisan shots at the state’s leaders.
“One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground. It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign, Trump wrote, intentionally mangling Newsom’s last name. “This is all his fault!!!”
First of all, Republicans have spent years regularly talking about California like it was America’s embodiment of the seventh level of Hell all because of the state’s liberal (or what colonizers call “woke”) politics, but now that there’s a natural disaster to politicize, the state is suddenly the “one of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America.” OK.
Secondly, Trump is claiming that the wildfires are “all (Newsome’s) fault,” which means he hasn’t been listening to the rest of his party or his racist followers, who also erroneously think DEI and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass are at fault.
Anyway, in a follow-up post, Trump claimed “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.” Trump, of course, didn’t bother providing any proof of his accusations — because that just isn’t a thing the president-elect does — and Izzy Gardon, Newsom’s director of communications, claimed he made it all up (which is exactly the thing that the president-elect does.)
“There is no such document as the water restoration declaration, that is pure fiction,” Gardon said. “The Governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need.”
Speaking of Newsom, he has also responded to Trump’s claims.
“People are literally fleeing,” Newsom told CNN’s Alex Cooper while the two were in the Pacific Palisades area where firefighters and other emergency workers are dealing with the disaster. “People have lost their lives, kids lost their schools. Families completely torn asunder, churches burned down, and this guy wanted to politicize it. I have a lot of thoughts and I know what I want to say – I won’t.”
Oh, but they will. Where most people see tragedy, Trump and his minions only see partisan opportunity.
Sad.
