{"id":39760,"date":"2018-11-18T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T16:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39760"},"modified":"2018-11-18T09:11:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T17:11:07","slug":"make-california-rake-again-trumps-fire-propaganda-video-callously-ignores-the-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39760","title":{"rendered":"Make California Rake Again: Trump’s Fire Propaganda Video Callously Ignores the Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday Donald Trump took a trip to California to see for himself the devastation caused by the fires that have taken dozens of lives and destroyed thousands of homes. It was a purely PR affair that he thinks will make people forget his insensitive threat<\/a><\/strong> – while people were still suffering – that he would make “no more Fed payments”<\/em> to the state. Those were his first public comments on the conflagration that he absurdly blamed on poor forest management.<\/p>\n

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Apparently someone on his White House Nanny Brigade eventually convinced him that insulting the victims was a bad idea. Particularly since his assessment was so idiotic and ill-informed. He was schooled by everyone, from the head of the California firefighters union<\/a><\/strong> (who called Trump’s comments “demeaning”<\/em>), to prominent scientists, that forest management had nothing to with this blaze and that “raking the forest floor,”<\/em> as Trump advised, was a ludicrous proposal to prevent future tragedies.<\/p>\n

So Trump boarded Air Force One and ventured off to the West Coast that he is so fond of disparaging. He brought along a few Republican Nationalist Party pals, but no Democrats were among the delegation. Although he did meet with California’s Governor Jerry Brown, and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom (who was married to Don Jr’s current girlfriend), both of whom are Democrats that Trump has frequently and viciously maligned. And afterward he posted a video on Twitter of his time in the Golden State:<\/p>\n

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Incredible to be with our GREAT HEROES today in California. We will always be with you! pic.twitter.com\/B1MCTF83Zf<\/a><\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n