Gavin Newsom Takes Melodramatic Shot at Trump While Standing in Front of Burning Houses

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : " For context, Newsom's comments about Trump came after the president-elect took to Truth Social, making a series of posts blasting Newsom's leadership -- or lack thereof -- for the fires.
37% : " Trump is not "politicizing" these fires by simply reminding Americans how California got to this point.
29% : "[Trump] wanted to politicize it.
29% : January 20th cannot come fast enough!" Trump followed this with another post about how containment efforts were going.
27% : He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn't work!), but didn't care about the people of California," Trump wrote.
22% : He did so on the basis of the Endangered Species Act, claiming it applied to the delt smelt, or "worthless fish" mentioned by Trump.
11% : Newsom concluded feigning outrage over Trump by trying to contrast his behavior with President Joe Biden, with whom he had made an appearance, saying, Biden "didn't play politics" and "had the backs of every single person in this community.
4% : In another post, Trump continued to take aim at Newsom and Biden: "The fires in Los Angeles may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country.

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