6/11/2019

CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “At our urging, we are finally starting to see some progress on better forest management. Remember I went to California? I saw something that nobody has ever seen. It was like a blowtorch… They were saying it was global warming. Could’ve had something to do with it. But you need forest management.

You can’t let 15 and 20 years of leaves and broken trees and deadwood — that after the first 18 months is dry as a bone — you can’t let that be there. You have to clean it. You have to clean those floors of the forest. And you’re going to see a big difference. And, actually, they mocked me. They said, ‘Oh, what’s he doing? He’s talking about sweeping the floors.’ Well, I don’t use the word ‘sweeping,’ but you have to have forest management.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Renewable Energy,” whitehouse.gov, June 11, 2019