MAGA Is Blaming DEI for the California Wildfires

As the fire has spread Out of control across the Los Angeles area on WednesdayCovering more than 28,000 acres of land, destroying thousands of homes and buildings, including entire neighborhoods, and causing at least five deaths, President-elect Donald Trump, his MAGA acolytes, right-wing commentators, conservative news outlets and far-right conspirators have all been blamed. Not on climate change or eight months of no rain, but on awareness.

Trump—who supports the massive expansion of fossil fuel extraction and use, which Scientific consensus Using the unfolding tragedy to attack his longtime nemesis, California Governor Gavin Newsom—directly connecting it to the increasing prevalence of extreme weather events. He claimed that Democrats’ inability to embrace environmental issues was responsible for the Los Angeles Fire Department’s (LAFD) inability to handle what was already the deadliest fire in California history.

“Governor Gavin Newscom refused to sign the Water Recovery Proclamation put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain and snowmelt from the north to flow daily into many parts of California, including areas currently burning. In a virtually undisclosed way,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “He wanted to save a useless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!), but the people of California didn’t care.”

Governor’s Press Office issued a statement Wednesday condemned Trump’s comments and pointed out that “there is no such document as a water recovery declaration — it’s pure fiction.”

Democrats’ embrace of so-called vigilante policies has become an all-purpose bogeyman for the right in recent years. Like previous generations, they blame political correctness and affirmative action for various problems, such as after major events Assassination attempt against Trump Last July and Baltimore Bridge collapses As of last March, they now regularly attribute renaissance and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

“Can we rename DEI to DIE, because that’s what mainstream people who put woke virtue signaling far above meritocracy think?!?,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.

Elon Musk, a Trump confidant and owner of Centillionaire X, is never one To move away from a conspiracy theorywas using his platform to fuel confusion about what was to blame for the fires.

“DEI means people die,” Musk wrote in one post, with several others criticizing Christine Crowley, the LAFD chief, who was a 22-year veteran of the department. appreciated With his wife for saving nine houses from total destruction during the Woolsey Fire in 2018.

Crowley is the first woman and first member of the LGBTQ community to hold the position of fire chief in LA.

The woman behind the mask shared a post by Chaya Raichik Hate filled, anti-LGBTQ accounts LibsOfTikTok: “Meet Los Angeles Fire Chief Christine Crowley. She boasts of being the first female and LGBTQ fire chief in the LA Fire Department. Promoting DEI’s culture is his priority. Does it make you feel safe?” The post has been viewed more than five million times.