• President Donald Trump blames California’s “poor” forest management for the most recent wildfires that killed eleven people and drove 250,000 residents out of their homes.
• However, he fails to mention that more than half of the state’s forests are controlled at the federal level by the Department of Agriculture.
• Trump also continues to ignore global warming as a major factor for these wildfires, among other extreme weather disasters.

On Saturday, President Donald Trump reacted to the most recent California wildfires by blaming California’s “poor” forest management for the disaster. There were no mentions of the eleven people killed in the wildfire, nor the thousands of homes that the fire destroyed. He went as far as to say he will stop funding the state with fire assistance if it doesn’t do anything to remedy the problem.

Trump has repeatedly showed his disapproval of California’s forest management practices, both on and offline. At a cabinet meeting, Trump said the incompetence in California is “costing our country hundreds of billions of dollars,” reported ABC News. Back in August, Trump also tweeted that the wildfires were becoming worse due to “bad environmental laws” in the state.

Despite his strong belief that California’s solely responsible for forest mismanagement, Trump may be wrong. Experts told the Sacramento Bee that the federal government controls more than 20 million acres of California’s forests, which makes up more than half of the forests in the state. The group in control is the Forest Service, which is a part of the federal Department of Agriculture.

Trump also continues to ignore global warming as a factor of worsening forest fires.

As this Weather Channel segment explains, the warming climate is increasing the possibility and magnitude of wildfires.

“Weather plays a huge role in how explosive a wild fire can be,” says presenter Stephanie Abrams. “Over the past few decades, the climate in the western U.S. has become more conducive for wildfires with overall warmer dryer weather.”

Three major fires are eating up California – the Camp Fire, the Woolsey Fire and the Hill Fire. A total of 176,100 acres have been destroyed, according to Vox, forcing more than 250,000 people in California to evacuate.