Trump’s criticism of California governor right

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President-elect Donald Trump is right to criticize the governor of California over the wildfires as in the past, the federal government provided funding and yet there has been no change, California State Legislature Assembly Member Bill Essayli says.   #Trump #CaliforniaWildfires

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00:00Yeah, with regards to putting out the fires, we've heard from President-elect Donald Trump

00:05saying, quote, they just can't put out the fires, what's wrong with them, he said on

00:10Truth Social.

00:11I mean, we've got 8,500 firefighters on the ground.

00:15I'm sure they're doing their best.

00:16Some of them are in the air, I should add, as well.

00:19But this is one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history.

00:23And clearly, putting them out, I mean, they'd put them out if they could, but this is a

00:26massive challenge.

00:27I mean, is that kind of rhetoric helpful coming from the President-elect, sort of

00:32suggesting that it's a simple task and they're not up to it?

00:36You know, I think what's frustrating to people like me and the President-elect Trump is that

00:41this is not the first wildfire.

00:43We do this every year.

00:44We've had devastating wildfires.

00:45The biggest wildfire was a few years ago in the state of California.

00:48And every time the federal government steps in to help and to give billions of dollars

00:53to recovery.

00:54But what the President-elect wants is he wants a change in policies.

00:57He gives this money over and he says, OK, but now you have to fix it.

01:01Now you've got to make sure this doesn't happen again.

01:03So here we are again in 2025.

01:06We have another season, wildfire season, and we still don't have water in the reservoirs.

01:12We still haven't managed the forest.

01:14We still haven't done the basic things.

01:15So yeah, it's very hard to put out a fire without water.

01:18It's very hard to do these things.

01:20So I think the President-elect is absolutely right to be critical of this of this government.

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