Donald Trump takes wildfire swipe at California governor Gavin Newsom

Trump takes swipe at California governor Gavin Newsom over devastating  wildfires. Source: AP

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00:00What's happening in California is a true tragedy. I know those areas very well. I have many friends living in those houses

00:06that is a true tragedy. The biggest homes, some of the most valuable homes in the world are just

00:13destroyed. I don't even know, you know, you talk about a tax base. If those people leave, you're gonna lose half your tax base of

00:19California. This is a true tragedy, and it's a mistake of the governor and you could say the administration.

00:26They don't have any water. They didn't have water in the fire hydrants.

00:30They don't have water, and yet they have. The water comes from, you know,

00:34where? Up north, and it comes down at levels. They give millions and millions of barrels of

00:40gallons of water

00:42that they have, and they send it out into the Pacific. For the Pacific, it's like a drop.

00:47It's nothing, but for California, we take care of the whole state.

00:50So what's happened is a tragedy, and the governor has not done a good job. With that being said,

00:55I got along well with him when he was governor. We worked together very well, and we would work together.

01:01I guess it looks like we're going to be the one having to rebuild it, but what happened there,

01:05I don't think is anything that I've ever seen quite like it, and the insurance companies are going to have a big problem

01:11because you're talking about big, big dollars.