'A true disaster!': Trump blames California governor for wildfires amid natural disaster

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In a closed door meeting with Republican lawmakers, Trump himself said that the island was receiving an amount that was "way out of proportion to what Texas and Florida and others have gotten," according to Sen. Marco Rubio, who was present at the time.
48% : In an effort to protect his constituents from Trump administration meddling, Newsom recently declared that he and state legislators were working round the clock to "Trump proof" California.
42% : "Trump has ranted about the fish before.
32% : "For all his bloviating, Trump has done little to support California in times of need.
28% : Trump has frequently repeated the erroneous claim that California is simply "taking the water and shoving it out to sea," seemingly unaware of how watersheds actually work.
25% : Referring to the governor as "Newscum" with middle school-bully aplomb, Trump raged that Newsom had jeopardized California's fire response operations in favor of protecting smelt -- a fish species local to the area -- as part of a "water restoration declaration.
25% : During the lead up to the 2024 election, Trump threatened to withhold wildfire aid from the state if Newsom didn't change the water policy.
21% : "It's likely that many more preventable deaths will occur if Trump continues to leverage disaster relief aid to in order to put a squeeze on his political opponents.
18% : Rather than express sympathy for victims, Donald Trump laid blame on state governor Gavin Newsome.
17% : In a post on Truth Social, Trump ripped into Newsom in a nonsensical tirade about the fires, California water, and "useless fish."
16% : Puerto Rico's mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said that Trump and his administration's negligence led to the preventable deaths of thousands in the hurricane's aftermath.
10% : As for the "water restoration declaration" that Trump is rambling on about, Newsom writes that no such document exists, calling Trump's claim "pure fiction.
7% : Trump's words drew harsh criticism from Newsom, who warned in a post on X that if Trump were to be elected, he would continue to "block emergency disaster funds to settle political vendettas.
2% : "Donald Trump doesn't care about America -- he only cares about himself" Gavin Newsom once said about Trump - and Trump's disaster relief response (or lack thereof) continues to make that fact abundantly clear.

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