While visiting California this weekend , President Donald Trump said Finnish President Sauli Niinisto say him that “ graze ” was part of the country ’s forest direction before insinuating that it ’s something the United States should be doing to mitigate wildfire . The remark was gonzo , to be sure . But now , Niinisto says that no such conversation ever happened .
reply questions from reporters with California officials about the country ’s wildfires on Saturday , Trump said that direction of the “ floors of the forest ” was crucial for avoiding succeeding environmental catastrophes like the Camp Fire , which has become the state’sdeadliestand mostdestructivefire in its history . He then pointed to a conversation he claimed he had with Niinisto .
“ You look at other countries where they do it differently and it ’s a whole different write up , ” he said . “ I was with the President of the United States of Finland and he say , ‘ We ’re a forest state . ’ He called it a wood land . And they spend a lot of time on run down and clean and doing thing . And they do n’t have any trouble . And when it is , it ’s a very small problem . ”
It now appears that the conversation never happened . require about the input by Finish newspaperIlta - Sanomat , Niinisto say he did n’t recall a discourse about raking , though he did call back telling the Chief Executive that “ we take care of our forests . ”
Beyond the fact that Finland ’s president insinuate this conversation about skim happened exclusively in Trump ’s mind , perhaps at the very instant the watchword pass out of his oral cavity , it is not the first time Trump has mentioned raking in relation to California ’s fires . Just one day before visiting Paradise , the California town that was essentiallyburned to the groundby the Camp Fire , Trump againmentioned skim .
As it appears that his cited source now deny any such conversation ever hap , it ’s unclear how or why the President of the United States has latched onto this bizarre and vastly oversimplified result to a complex job .
[ Associated Press ]
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