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Ignorance is bliss But, alas, our fearless leader is totally ignorant of what is actually going on with California's climate and that is such a shame, especially with threatening to withhold federal disaster funding over something the state really has no control over. Even Canadians are better informed than our twitter-in-chief when it comes to California's forests. Just three percent of forest land in California is under the control of the state. The federal government owns 57 percent. About 40 percent of the state's forest are privately owned, and neither of the two major fires currently burning are on state forest land, reports CBC Canada. And of course, last year when Trump visited what was left of Paradise in Butte County, California, in speaking with reporters, Trump pledged to work with environmental groups to “take care of the floors, you know, the floors of the forest.”Why didnt @realDonaldTrump not rake California before the dryseason? #rakenews pic.twitter.com/BJ0xZBXc99
— Jan Deleuran 🥶 (@JanDeleuran) October 29, 2019
“I think everybody’s seen the light, and I don’t think we’ll have this again to this extent. We’re going to have to work quickly,” Trump said. “But a lot of people are very much — there’s been a lot of study going on over the last little while, and I will say I think you’re going to have — hopefully this is going to be the last of these because this was a really, really bad one.”#RakeAmericaGreatAgain: Twitter claps back at Trump's comments about forest management https://t.co/6pvf7Ix9nv pic.twitter.com/lOyPb5sxSn
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 17, 2018
Actually, what would really be great would be for every adult in California to be supplied with a leaf blower. The federal government could pay for them and Californians could spend there leisure time cleaning the forests. Great Idea?Greetings from #Finland! This is our daily #forest report with all the latest details about #raking.#SundayThoughts #nature #SundayMotivation #luonto #photography #Suomi #Helsinki #VisitFinland #RakeTheForest #rakenews #haravointi #Trump #ilmasto #thephotohour #weather pic.twitter.com/do1OjQnwOi
— Kristiina Vahvaselkä (@TravelWithXtina) November 3, 2019