Trump to Survey Incredible' Fire Damage Following Criticism

[left-of-center2012]

President Donald Trump is traveling to California on Saturday to survey damage from the deadly wildfires that have killed 71 people and potentially left more than 1,000 missing, a tragedy he’s blamed on mismanagement of the state’s forests by its Democratic leaders.

He’s expected to tour the ruins of Paradise, a town all but leveled by the Camp Fire in Northern California. California Governor Jerry Brown said in a tweet that he and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom would join the president and welcomed his visit. In a tweet on Friday night, Trump thanked Brown and said he was looking forward to joining the two men: "We are with you!"

The Camp Fire in Northern California is now the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century. Eight sets of human remains were found Friday and 1,011 people are unaccounted for in Butte County, a number that’s expected to fluctuate, Sheriff Kory Honea said. The fire has burned more than 146,000 acres and was only 50 percent contained as of Friday evening, according to the Butte County Fire Department.

Trump again criticized forest management in the “Fox News Sunday” interview, which was taped on Friday.

“The big problem is management.”
An unnamed governor, Trump told Wallace, had explained to him that in properly tended forests that are “cleaned out,” fires can be extinguished “right away.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-17/trump-to-survey-incredible-fire-damage-following-criticism?srnd=politics-vp

[enough]

1. So ignorant, so proud of it. NT

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I wonder if he'll use his hair as an excuse to stay far away from the fire. Not because of rain, but

because he uses so much hairspray to keep that bizarre edifice from collapsing and revealing his yuge bald spot - and hairspray is very flammable.

[2naSalit]

4. He'll complain about the smoke.

[peekaloo]

3. Will he be wearing a Haz Mat suit?

Not sure having a gasbag in the vicinity is a good idea.

[2naSalit]

5. +1

[Zambero]

6. Trump already has a solution in mind

"Rake up all the entire state of California". Apparently, viewing footage of firefighters digging line generated this brilliant idea. Just need to find a centralized location to pile up all the brush and small trees from this massive raking operation!

[mokawanis]

7. If it weren't for all the trees and sticks and random pieces of wood lying around

California wouldn't have such terrible fires. Why can't they just tidy up the forests as tRump says?

[OneBlueDotBama]

8. Air Force One Will be...

Chock full of hot dogs and marshmallows, beautiful hot dogs, strong marshmallows..

[packman]

9. Probably say something along the line of---

"I really enjoy those smores when I was sent to camp" or "All this smoke reminds me of the McRib, great sandwich".

[world wide wally]

10. He will also be asking for a life size map of California so he can point out exactly where to rake

[left-of-center2012]

11. "Since I became president ..."

"Since I became president, we've had the biggest, best fires."

[irisblue]

12. 🤦

" President blames ‘forest management,’ not climate for fires
More than half of California forests are federal lands"

From the article
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