Trump Offers Californians a Solution For Wildfires: ‘Dampen Your Forests’

"Just move your forests to the ocean..."

I am seriously starting to think Trump has never seen a forested area in his life. What a fucking dumbass.

Will the media never learn not to give this moron a platform ? We do not need to hear his every "thoughts" on whatever topic. People who have not grasped at this point that he is as stupid as a sack of corrugated plastic will never be convinced. Stop giving him exposure for pity's sake.

Ah yes. Plenty of extra water up "north."

We should dampen the forests while California is going through historic droughts, telling people not to water their lawns, aquifers drying up, lakes going dry, and the Colorado River output decreasing and continual debates on where that limited water goes.

Fucking idiot.

His supporters are so dumb.

My solution: jail Drumpf and wet the forest with conservative's tears... they seem to cry so easily

I mean, that would work......

I also have a solution for gun violence. Just stop shooting people.

My goodness, what an idea! Why didn't I think of that?

I remember when Trump suggested raking the California forest would prevent wildfires.

He was our president then, elected by the US. It was a very embarrassing time for the USA. The world laughed at us. I didn't vote for him but he still made me feel shame for our country.

Huh... this one wasn't The Onion.

“They say that there’s so much water up north, that I wanna have the overflow areas go into your forests and dampen your forests,” Trump said. “Because if you dampen your forest, you’re not gonna have these fire forest fires that are burning at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.”

Absolute dumbass shit.

‘You have very poor land management,” he continued before recalling a conversation he had with an Austrian official about forest fires in that country. “He said, ‘Sir, we have more flammable trees than you do on your coast. We don’t have forest fires. We have land management.’ They take care of the land. They pick up the dead trees. You know, a tree doesn’t burn very easily unless it’s dead. Then it gets dry and it burns. The leaves on the ground – they’re five feet thick over here.”

Stuff that might be true (I'm never going to look into this) but isn't funny. Goddamn Trump sending mixed signals here.

So, when I read a headline about a politician talking about something, and what they say sounds so far beyond ridiculous and stupid, I imagine there is probably some level of context that makes it less stupid, but just poorly stated, that the particular article has no incentive to show.

Apparently not this one, as Trump went on to blame the Governor of California for not dampening the forests, and suggested the water falling in the north is "free."

That is honestly one of the dumbest things I've read from an adult, and people cheered for it.

This guy is so detached from reality, it's surprising he's not suggesting that California asks the Jews to use their weather control device to create rain where needed.

Conservatives don't have enough backbone to actually defend this nonsense, they'll just slither away when confronted about it. Oh, but they'll still back this goddamn moron either way.

For one, just California is over 5 times the size of Austria. Also we know that story never happened, though.

Not so sure about “leaves five feet thick”….. well, I guess I am and it’s one of the more ridiculous things he’s said, which is a high bar. I certainly have not seen five foot deep piles of leaves in California or anywhere… apparently he’s back to the “raking” thing. Of course Trump is a total expert on forest fire prevention.

Spoken like a guy who has never seen the vastness of our national forests.

Wasn't the last idea to rake the forests?

Do Republicans know the story about the king who had no clothes on? Do they understand what it is about and how it is a metaphor? Do they know the word metaphor? Who am I kidding....

I suppose we should stop hurricanes by drying up the ocean.. just install a drain, really horrible ocean management.

Or stop earthquakes by putting rubber feet under cities, very poor city design....

Excellent work. Really indicative of a guy who spends his life indoors.

And there are some people out there that are like "Yup, that's my president " What a fucking moron.

Sure. We’ll just FedEx all the rain water New York City received yesterday. The 4-8” they got should dampen a lot of forest.

Dampening the forests makes about as much sense as trump dampening a woman without a checkbook in his tiny hands.

California famously has extra water to just... spray down an area the size of a european country?

Good idea, let's do that. Except there's no way to do that manually, so we'll have to use some sort of natural process...how about rainfall? All we'll have to do is reverse climate change, and then we can increase the average rainfall in California, and then the forests will be "dampened."

And it was all Trump's idea; to repeat, "anthropogenic climate change is real and we should reverse it" is now Trump's official, stated political platform.

All right, shh, nobody say anything, let's see if this works

Wait, I thought all they had to do was rake the forests???

Yeah about that, One tree can "drink" 600 liter water in one day. So Trump how many trees do you think are in a forest? How much water do you reckon that would be? So how exactly did you figure this should work.

Oh sorry my mistake I used words that suggested actually thinking about the problem, not just pulling shit out your ass.

The moron cannot imagine a solution that doesn't involve throwing some money at. Because all his problems are solved by lawyers and/or a few million dollars, it's outside his ability to understand the scale of real problems

Yes. Moisten your wood, California. Moisten your wood.

First he wanted them to rake the leaves now he wants them to dampen the forests...

Clouds do it all the time so how hard can it be?

You know what the saddest part is? Trump voters will try every trick in the book to convince everyone else they’re mentally ill, yet they will vote for this or any other dumpster fire, to keep from looking in the mirror.

For air pollution ? Move cities to countryside?

Of course there are forest fires in Austria. The climate of the northern Alps is not conducive to fires, but the south is more vulnerable.

Don’t forget we aren’t picking up the dead trees. SMH

Covfefe logic as usual.

They did not dampen their forests? Obviously that´s why their trees are exploding!