“Is it happening? Things are changing,” Trump said. “And I think, most importantly, we’re doing things about. We’re going to make it better. We’re going to make it a lot better. And it’s going to happen as quickly as it can possibly happen.”
Earlier Saturday, Trump said he thought there were “a lot of factors” involved when asked about the role of climate change in contributing to the fires.
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“We have the management factor that I know Jerry has really been up on and very well, and Gavin is going to, we’re going to be looking at that together,” Trump said.
Trump’s remarks came after he was criticized last week for initially blaming California forest management for the destruction wrought by the fires, considered the deadliest and most destructive in California’s history. Since the wildfires began, more than 70 people have died and more than 1,000 people remain missing.
“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” Trump wrote on Twitter last weekend. “Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!” he wrote in a tweet.
Source: Asked about climate change, Trump says ‘lot of factors’ to blame
