Thursday night time’s late-night exhibits had been centered on the devastation of the L.A. fires, in addition to incoming President Trump’s weird response to them.
“Day by day Present” host Desi Lydic performed a clip of Trump rambling on about smelt, persevering with to unfold a debunked conspiracy idea in regards to the state’s water provide.
“I attempted to get Gavin Newsom to permit water to return — you’d have super water on the market — they ship it out to the Pacific, as a result of they’re attempting to guard a tiny little fish — which is in different areas, by the best way — known as the smelt. For the sake of the smelt, they don’t have any water,” Trump stated.
Lydic supplied a rebuttal, saying “And for the report, no, the L.A. fires don’t have anything to do with smelt. However in Trump’s protection, phrases are laborious. And smelt solely has one syllable, whereas local weather change has three.”
Watch the “Day by day Present” phase under.
Seth Meyers additionally touched on Trump’s wildfire conspiracy theories on “Late Evening,” responding to a Fact Social put up that stated, “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to signal the water restoration declaration put earlier than him that might have allowed thousands and thousands of gallons of water, from extra rain and snow soften from the North, to circulation each day into many components of California, together with the areas which might be at present burning in a just about apocalyptic manner. He needed to guard an basically nugatory fish known as a smelt, by giving it much less water (it didn’t work!), however didn’t care in regards to the individuals of California. Now the final word worth is being paid. I’ll demand that this incompetent governor enable lovely, clear, recent water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA! He’s the blame for this. On prime of all of it, no water for fireplace hydrants, not firefighting planes. A real catastrophe!”
Meyers responded by saying, “You heard Trump, Newsom refused to signal the Water Restoration Declaration, a really actual doc that undoubtedly exists, proper?” He then minimize to a MSNBC phase confirming that no such doc exists.
“However I trusted the experience of the man who stated water that comes from heaven known as rain,” Meyers stated in response.
Watch the “Late Evening” phase under.