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Trump Just Sent Incredibly Heartless Tweet About Deadly California Fires And Twitter Is FURIOUS

The wildfires in California have killed at least nine people, and thousands more have evacuated their homes. Many homes have been destroyed or damaged, and the three largest fires currently burning have zero containment.

And this morning, Donald Trump weighed in by blaming poor forest management and threatening to withhold federal funding to California:

“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” he tweeted. “Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”

Obviously threatening to take away federal funding while fires are STILL burning is a heartless thing to do, and Twitter lashed out at Trump:

And the question we all ask:

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