NATURAL DISASTERS: “As far as the fires are concerned, you need forest management. In addition to everything else, the forest floors are loaded up with trees, dead trees that are years old and they’re like tinder and leaves and everything else. You drop a cigarette in there the whole forest burns down. You’ve got to have forest management…
Every year I get the call. California’s burning, California’s burning. If that was cleaned, if that were, if you had forest management, good forest management, you wouldn’t be getting those calls.
You know, in Europe, they live— there are forest cities. They’re called forest cities. They maintain their forest. They manage their forest. I was with the head of a major country, it’s a forest city. He said, ‘Sir, we have trees that are far more, they ignite much easier than California. There shouldn’t be that problem.’”
-Donald Trump via CNBC Television, “President Trump and former VP Biden face off in first presidential debate — 9/29/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 29, 2020