>> As wildfires continue to ravage the state of California, Donald Trump has repeated the
same nonsense that we saw from him in January of this year.
He has decided to attack Governor Gavin Newsom for his lack of effort in cleaning up the
forest floors.
These attacks were made on Twitter.
The governor of California Gavin Newsom has done a terrible job of forest management,
which by the way the federal government is responsible for.
I told him from the first day we met that he must clean his forest floors regardless
of what his bosses, the environmentalists demand of him.
Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers.
Okay, so.
This is exhausting.
>> Okay part of the problem, I don't even, I mean do I even need to bother explaining
this?
>> Go for it, though.
>> Like part of the problem, you idiot, is the fact that these privatized utilities haven't
updated their equipment or their power grid, which has led to faulty equipment sparking
fires in incredibly dry areas of California.
And so you have these brush fires, these wildfires has nothing to do with a dirty forest floor.
I just- >> Nothing at all.
>> I just want someone who's not an idiot at this point.
>> It takes a cursory search about what's happening.
>> Yeah there's so much, first of all not everything, every fire that's happening in
California is explicitly a forest fire.
Also the Federal government is in control of a lot of our forest.
>> A lot of it, yeah.
>> So threatening to take away aid for the parts of the state that you're not in control
of that doesn't seem to help.
>> Exactly.
>> If you care about the people here and not just some baseless political fight.
And then also the EPA under your control is doing a worse job than the government of California,
which absolutely could be doing a better job.
Absolutely, we could be working the figured settlement, but it's not like California's
not leading this.
>> Look, I gotta say there is legitimate criticism for Gavin Newsom because Gavin Newsom right
now is trying to find ways to bail out these utility companies who have been incredibly
irresponsible.
They're more interested in padding their own pockets as opposed to using some of their
profits to upgrade their equipment.
So I think Gavin Newsom is absolutely wrong in trying to bail them out.
These utilities shouldn't be privatized.
This is what happens when you have privatized utilities like PG&E.
But remember, Gavin Newsom was standing right next to Donald Trump last January when Trump
tried to compare California to Finland.
>> Arguing that Finland has got it figured out, take a look.
>> Gotta take care of the floors.
The floors of the forest, very important.
You look at other countries where they do it differently and it's a whole different
story.
I was with the president of Finland and he said we have a much different.
We're a forest nation.
He called it a forest nation.
And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they don't have
any problem and when it is it's a very small problem.
>> Okay, so that was stupid.
>> And Gavin Newsom realized it, and I love this edit that JR did cuz he zooms in on Newsom's
face, take a look.
>> You look at other countries where they, where they, where they do it differently and
it's a whole different story.
I was with the president of Finland and he- >> So it was, wait, you're gonna bash me?
I'm standing right here.
>> It was one of those moments, what was that movie, not on the same scale but I think it
was the Mel Gibson movie What Women Want.
So we had the opportunity I wanna read his mind right now and hear what he's saying.
He's this guy, what, did he just.
I want to know everything was going through his mind in that moment, because it had been
awesome.
So Trump has a personality disorder, he's an egomaniac and probably seven other things
that a actual doctor could diagnose, but in those situations, those moments, he sees these
things as an opportunity to promote himself and to bash someone who's ever opposed him.
He remembers this stuff.
He's, that guy said something mean about me once.
I hate him.
So every opportunity he has that's connected to Gavin Newsom he's gonna take as a way to
promote himself.
See he did it wrong with the forest floor and they should sweep it.
So when you do that, it's only a way to promote himself and then bash Gavin Newsom because
he was mean to me once.
Also, the entire state of California somehow hates him.
So in that room, who cares if it's burning?
Who cares if people's houses and lives are gone.
It doesn't matter because it's about promoting myself.
Remember, he threatened to take away funding for Puerto Rico during disaster, during the
hurricanes, multiple hurricanes there?
Because the mayor of San Juan was mean to him.
Puerto Rico, off the list.
Hate them.
Take away the funding.
And then once the governor of Puerto Rico was on his side, yeah, we can help out Puerto
Rico all we want.
Then he flipped on him, now I hate Puerto Rico again.
It's only based off of who's nice to him.
Who's my friends?
That's how he operates.
>> And it is terrifying because he can make decisions about whether or not he should cut
funding to certain disaster relief programs.
He's threatened to cut FEMA funding for California wildfires before.
He's doing it again in these recent attacks against Gavin Newsom.
And everything he does is he meant to either celebrate or applaud people who like him or
retaliate against his opponents or his critics.
And it's true of how he structured his tax legislation.
It's incredibly retaliatory against high state tax states like California and New York and
wow, what a coincidence.
These are blue states.
I mean, it's just gross because he doesn't see Americans as Americans, but even worse,
he doesn't see people as people unless they're on his side.