Trump’s ‘inaccurate’ claims about California fires mocked by late-night hosts

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Trump blamed the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, in an eyebrow-raising Truth Social post that inaccurately claimed he refused to sign a “water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water” to help put out the fires. 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”. open image in gallery Seth Meyers hit out at Trump’s inaccurate claim about California governor Gavin Newson 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”. But in Trump’s defence, words are hard, and smelt only has one syllable, while climate change has three.” open image in gallery Desi Lydic mocked Trump for his response to California fires Officials said on Thursday that while progress had been made on the Sunset, Woodley, Hurst and Sunswept Fires, more “extreme fire behaviour” and wind gusts of up to 60 mph are continuing to challenge firefighting efforts.