Opinion | California is burning. Trump's response was wildly inaccurate and unhelpful.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Well, remember that Trump wanted more of that water to go to nut and fruit farmers in areas, most of whom support him, and not to the residents of Los Angeles, most of whom don't.
39% : Newsom, Trump wrote, "refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him" (false) that would have allowed millions of gallons of water to flow into "many parts of California" (false) because he "wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt" (misleading) by "giving it less water" (pretty sure he means "more water," but let's move on) and now there is "no water for fire hydrants" (misleading).
38% : As for the smelt, Trump is being disingenuous.
26% : Unfortunately, that debate won't include Trump, whose first instinct was to blame his political opponents, raise an irrelevant issue and misinform everyone about the basic facts.
23% : This is basic stuff, so the fact that Trump describes this as Newsom refusing to sign some kind of document that never existed should give you a sense of how disengaged he is with his own policy.
12% : In a Truth Social post Wednesday, Trump blamed California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the wildfires, arguing that his handling of a complex dispute over water rights in the greater San Francisco area somehow either caused the fires or made it harder to fight them.

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