Trump blames California's governor, and his water policy, for wildfires

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : In his post on Jan 8, Trump said: "I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA!
52% : "They're starting again in California," Trump said at a rally.
51% : In 2019, during his first term, Trump pushed changes that would have diverted more water to growers in the Central Valley.
41% : "Trump took a different approach.
32% : "Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way," Trump said.
31% : But it is not clear that the diversion of water that Trump proposed would have affected the explosion of fires in the Los Angeles area this week, or the ability of firefighters to battle it.
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 on Truth Social.
21% : "Mr Newsom posted throughout the day about the resources California is deploying to fight the fires and joined Biden for a briefing from fire officials, but he did not mention Trump.
18% : That Christmas, Trump tweeted: "Governor Gavin N has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California.
16% : In 2019, Trump accused San Francisco of allowing used needles from drug users to be washed into the ocean, saying the city was in "serious violation" of environmental rules and demanding that officials "clean it up".
14% : In 2020, Trump blamed Mr Newsom's administration for failing to do enough to prevent forest fires, which were then raging through the state.
6% : In a post on his social media site, Trump mocked Governor Gavin Newsom, calling him "incompetent" and claiming that the governor had blocked an infusion of water to Southern California because of concern about the impact on a threatened fish.

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