This is the best piece I’ve seen on 45’s “strikingly ignorant” tweets about the California fires.
The Mendocino Complex is now the second largest fire in state history.
No one would mistake President Donald Trump for an expert on climate change or water policy, but a tweet he issued late Sunday about California's wildfires deserves some sort of award for most glaring misstatements about those two issues in the smallest number of words.
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The likeliest explanation for his take on water is that he's confused by the demands for more irrigation water he's hearing from Republican officeholders in the Central Valley. They're the people who grouse about water being "wasted" by being diverted to the ocean, rather than into their fields.
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The likeliest explanation for his take on water is that he's confused by the demands for more irrigation water he's hearing from Republican officeholders in the Central Valley. They're the people who grouse about water being "wasted" by being diverted to the ocean, rather than into their fields.
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