The last time Mr Trump even mentioned the wildfire crisis in the west was August 20th, when he provided this ridiculous, childish advice:
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"And I see again, the forest fires are starting," Trump said. "They're starting again in California. And I said, you've got to clean your floors. You've got to clean your floors."
"I've been telling them this now for three years, but they don't want to listen," he added.
The last thing the president said about California’s catastrophic wildfires was in mid-August, when he blamed the state for not keeping its forest floors clean.
By Lydia O’Connor
It’s been nearly three weeks since President Donald Trump has acknowledged the catastrophic wildfires burning across California and other Western states, underscoring his pattern of dismissing climate disasters in Democratic strongholds.
The author of this article is mistaken, it’s been over four weeks since Trump mentioned the western wildfires.
“President Trump’s silence and complete disregard for the millions of people at risk is horrifying,” Climate Power 2020 Executive Director Lori Lodes said in a statement. “It shouldn’t matter if it’s a red state or a blue state, the president should be above politics in moments of crises. He calls climate change a ‘hoax’ when we can all see our nation is burning. Voters see through his BS.”
His silence on natural disasters in California and neighboring blue states isn’t shocking. As HuffPost’s Chris D’Angelo has pointed out, his administration typically rolls out the red carpet for red states weathering a climate crisis but makes threats against Democratic ones.
The former chief of staff of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, Miles Taylor, said last month that revenge against blue states was part of the Trump playbook.
“The California wildfires,” Taylor gave as an example. “On a phone call with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he told FEMA to cut off the money, and to no longer give individual assistance to California. He told us to stop giving money to people whose houses had burned down from a wildfire because he was so rageful that people in the state of California didn’t support him, and that politically it wasn’t a base for him.”
Mr. Trump sees America as two different countries. Only one of which (the Red States) are deserving of a federal government that protects its citizens’ lives, and provides for their well being. That leaves out the West Coast.
