Trump’s ‘inaccurate’ claims about California fires mocked by late-night hosts
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Seth Meyers accused president-elect of spreading lies as death toll rises to seven. The late-night hosts are mocking Donald Trump over his response to the deadly California wildfires raging through the Los Angeles area. At least seven people have been killed and countless others injured as fast-moving wildfires continue to tear across the outskirts of Los Angeles, leaving thousands of firefighters battling desperately to extinguish the blaze.
According to Trump, this declaration, which Newsom’s office said was “non-existent”, would have allowed “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”.
Find all live updates on the California fires here. Seth Meyers hit out at Trump for “lying about the water that brave firefighters are using to battle the wildfire”. He commended the firefighters for “doing courageous work”, adding: “And then there’s the president-elect, who has decided to chime in, not to help, but to spread bulls*** that will just make the emergency response more difficult.”.
Desi Lydic, appearing on The Daily Show, called Trump “one of the country’s leading blame producers”, questioning another of the president-elect’s claims – namely that Newsom didn’t sign the non-existent declaration as he “wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt by giving it less water”.