On Friday's broadcast of HBO's “Real Time,” host Bill Maher joked about President-elect Donald Trump's comments during his first term about California's lack of vegetation management. “Just because Mr. Trump says so doesn't automatically mean vegetation management will happen.” Wrong. “And pointed out how other parts of the state manage their vegetation.
Maher said this after former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso cited failure to clean up old vegetation as a “foreseeable” reason for the destruction.[Y]You mentioned vegetation, and I remember when there was a fire when Trump was president, he came in and said, “You're not raking, you're not raking.” is. And I did – we all joked about it. But we have to overcome this problem. Is he usually wrong? Yeah. But I'm not going to — I remember when he took ivermectin or something, and then he took ivermectin, which won the Nobel Prize. Did it feel like it turned into snake oil? No, just because President Trump said something doesn't automatically mean it's wrong. He has a point about that, but we don't. ”
Caruso interjected, saying Trump had a point. Maher replied: “You know what they did in Sacramento? Goats. …You put them on a hillside and they eat plants. And they're cheap, they work cheap, and they give great milk. ” Mr. Caruso replied that the goat was working.
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