I hate to say it because it sounds sycophantic, and I have criticized Trump plenty over the years–but Donald Trump has a habit of not just being right but right years ahead of almost every politician.
During his first administration, he criticized California regarding its forest management practices and blamed the wildfires back then on poor forest management. He was right about that. But most people don’t know that Trump has kept talking about California’s hideous environmental policies and how they endanger its citizens, especially with regard to the fire hazards.
Trump was right about the fires in California.
It’s not climate change; it’s the Democrats.
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) January 8, 2025
During this recent campaign, Trump spent 7 minutes discussing the topic with Joe Rogan. Trump had zero chance of winning California’s electoral college votes, but he devoted precious campaign time to the issue nonetheless.
Donald Trump was mocked for sounding the alarm on the California water/fire crisis during his interview with Joe Rogan.
Turns out, he was right.
Trump spent nearly 7 minutes ranting about the issue, blasting Newsom for doing nothing to fix the problem.
Trump specifically… pic.twitter.com/zSls82byPo
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 8, 2025
California faces many challenges, but water management has been a problem since the city began to grow. You may recall that the plot of Chinatown, the 1974 Jack Nicolson movie, revolved around the corruption related to…water management. There isn’t enough water to go around, mostly due to terrible public policies, just as the wildfires are directly related to poor public policies related to forest management.
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump is SLAMMING Gavin Newsom for allowing these fires to happen
Trump accuses Newscum of prioritizing a worthless fish over his people.
REMOVE NEWSOM! pic.twitter.com/M1zVUyoK7T
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 8, 2025
Trump is, once again, absolutely right about all this, and his more general criticisms about woke policies, the Ukraine obsession, and Democrat incompetence all play into the failures we are seeing now in some of the most beautiful and expensive areas of Los Angeles. Lots of the beautiful people who live in the region will have lost their homes, and even with their (legitimate) love of California may choose to pull up stakes and leave.
🚨 REMINDER: HUNDREDS of Los Angeles’ top firefighters were TERMINATED or suspended for REFUSING to take the COVID jab
Now, as the city burns to the ground, LA’s Fire Chief is complaining about a critical shortage of firefighters.
INFURIATING. Countless American lives have been… pic.twitter.com/Am0c2Z5DxQ
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 8, 2025
Liberals are, of course, trying to blame Trump rather than accept responsibility for the mess they created. The LA Fire Department, for instance, donated equipment to Ukraine and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass cut funding for the Fire Department.
Trump didn’t cause a lack of water
Nor did he defund the LA fire department
Bass cuts 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/bC5qJ2oXXk
— VK (@vjeannek) January 8, 2025
Not to mention the fact that the Fire Chief is a DEI hire whose goal is to recruit more LGBTQ+/-% alphabet people rather than, you know, fight fires.
I spent a few years as a fireman and this is simply dangerous. A burning building with people in danger is not the place for social experiments. The only good thing sadly this is that the people pushing this DEI ism nonsense will have their houses protected by the same less… https://t.co/78mF9xaV6o
— Tom Renz (@RenzTom) January 8, 2025
And as for the Mayor herself, who is theoretically supposed to help prevent and respond to these crises?
She is out of town at the moment as her city burns. She’s in Ghana.
Ghana. Maybe she is hoping for an investment from Ghana’s major corporations or something.
Rick Caruso, billionaire real estate developer, called into LA local news:
“This is like a third world country… there is no water coming out of the fire hydrants. LA Mayor Karen Bass is on a foreign trip to Ghana.”pic.twitter.com/iOjXPkWcko
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) January 8, 2025
California is as good a place as any and better than most, to study liberal incompetence when it comes to running a government. If I didn’t know any better, I would think the governor and the mayors are trying to destroy the state, but the likelier explanation is that they focus only on ideological issues and primping to their lefty constituents. They talk as if they care about issues, but what they really want is money and power.
From my inbox, from ppl who are part of the aviation and firefighting communities in LA:
“Apparently L.A. City didn’t want to pay for the larger, water-load Fire Hawks that L.A Co Fire operates at the outset of the Palisades fire and didn’t call for the heavy water droppers… pic.twitter.com/kyt9DtMHwS
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) January 8, 2025
This is why, when a crisis happens, they are totally out of their depth. You would think that Karen Bass and Governor Newsom would invest a bit of time in running things well for no other reason than they are ambitious and want to climb the ladder, but it turns out that any sane person who can afford to leave is going to greener pastures, and the people left have the foresight of blind mole-rats.
Fires do not care about “cultural competency.” They do not care about “implicit bias.” They do not care about a “diverse and inclusive workforce.” Any dollar devoted to these pseudo-concepts is a dollar diverted from actually fighting fires.pic.twitter.com/BTfJ7YFLPK
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 8, 2025
No amount of incompetence on the part of their leaders seems to offend them. At least not a large enough fraction of voters to make a difference.
In 2014, Californians overwhelmingly voted to spend billions on water storage and reservoirs.
Gavin Newsom still hasn’t built it.
Now no water is coming out of the fire hydrants. pic.twitter.com/seK4FOhGjq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 8, 2025
No, it’s all posturing, ideology, fake environmentalism, and graft.
Under its DEI-obsessed fire chief, the LAFD spent millions on a single electric fire truck that had to be immediately sidelined because of a water leak.
Who could have known water and electricity don’t mix?
This was after the LAFD spent millions creating a DEI bureau. pic.twitter.com/FrNQkIstEK
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 8, 2025
People are, quite literally, dying for change. The death toll will inevitably rise, and the economic devastation will be enormous.
🚨 #BREAKING: LA Fire Chief says there are NOT NEARLY enough firefighters, per radio traffic
This comes after LA Mayor Karen Bass cut over $17 MILLION from the Los Angeles Fire Dept this year, and diverted those funds to illegals and the homeless industrial complex
This is ALL… pic.twitter.com/22vAx3DOpx
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 8, 2025
The fires, as I write this, are not remotely contained; people are stuck in their homes, and because of Newsom’s insane policies, they are likely uninsured for the loss. A recent request by the insurance companies to raise their rates was denied, so they left.
Californians had their home insurance cancelled PRIOR to these fires.
The LA Mayor is in Africa…as she spent their tax dollars funding Fire Departments in Ukraine.
There was no water to put out these fires…and California is next to an ocean. pic.twitter.com/ZqoM74cjah
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) January 8, 2025
No doubt climate change will be blamed for the fire, but the reality is that this was totally predictable and indeed predicted by many, including President Trump.
There’s no water coming out of the fire hydrants because the city didn’t fill the reservoirs but at least the fire chief is a woman and gay! https://t.co/EXdtuAvM0O
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 8, 2025
California is burning, and liberals lit the match.
A lot of people dunking on Sam for this take but let me explain. The first rule of journalism is that whenever something bad happens, you have to blame the bad thing on the Republican in Closest Proximity (RICP). In the event that you’re stuck with a Dem mayor and Dem gov and Dem… https://t.co/eykHi2MeaK
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) January 8, 2025
