President Donald Trump traveled to California to express support amid the devastating fires that have claimed acres upon acres of land, taking aim at environmental groups.
In his statement, he told the groups that they needed to “change” their ways after it became clear the influence they had over the blue state of California did nothing to help prevent or contain the blazes.
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Trump: I was talking to people from Austria, people from Finland and people who live in forests. One of the gentlemen, one of the great leaders of Austria says we don’t have forest fires, we have trees that are more flammable than in California but they literally rake their… pic.twitter.com/U3qFASOt7p
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 25, 2025
“I was talking to people from Austria, people from Finland and people who live in forests,” Trump said. “One of the gentlemen, one of the top, great leaders of Austria says we don’t have forest fires, we have trees that are more flammable than they have in California but they literally rake their forests, if a tree comes down they take it down. They say you have 18 months and after that, it’s like a matchstick. I know some environmental groups like the trees to melt into the ground but when they do melt into the ground, they become an inferno. So I think you’re going to have to change your ways in terms of that.”
“You have 30 years of leaves and those leaves are dry as a bone and they burn,” he added.
Newsweek published an article along a similar vein in early January, asking how California officials could have let conditions become so bad, knowing there was a risk.
“Well before those dangerous conditions aligned and sparked the massive blazes that tore through some of L.A.’s most affluent neighborhoods this week, the region was already a tinderbox due, in part, to a lack of prescribed fires,” the outlet explained.
“Also known as controlled burns, those are fires intentionally set by forest managers to reduce hazardous fuels like brush, dead trees and other highly flammable materials. The main benefit of prescribed fires is to ‘reduce the risk of unwanted wildfires in the future,’ according to the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,” the article added. “The reason California hasn’t conducted more of these controlled burnings comes down to existing environmental laws in the U.S. that have posed bureaucratic obstacles to prescribed fires. It often takes years for proposals to go through reviews before any controlled burning can actually take place.”
Trump is correct – California needs to change its ways: https://t.co/v0i7BGZ5Qi
— locke and demosthenes (@XCarcallaX) January 25, 2025
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