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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon Apr 15, 2019, 05:27 PM Apr 2019

Trump says French fighting Notre Dame fire wrong

Heard this on MSNBC.

Trump said the French are not fighting the fire correctly.
That they need to fly tanker planes over the cathedral to bomb it with water and fire retardant.

The Paris fire chief has responded, saying they are trying to save as much of Notre Dame as possible.
That it's interior is an old wooden foundation
and to do what Trump suggests would collapse the whole structure.

This is the same Trump who told California they'd have no forest fires if they would simply sweep the forest 'floor'.

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BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
1. He says something stupid, people point out that it's stupid, and then he doubles down on it.
Mon Apr 15, 2019, 05:29 PM
Apr 2019

Childish little twerp.

coti

(4,612 posts)
3. Just like millions of acres of California have burned because it doesn't have enough reservoirs
Mon Apr 15, 2019, 05:33 PM
Apr 2019

Truly brilliant.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
5. OMG. I was afraid he would say something stupid, if not offensive, about this.
Mon Apr 15, 2019, 05:37 PM
Apr 2019

Telling French firefighters how to save Notre Dame is so, um, godawful. I want to apologize to the French people for our godawful president. I hope Obama says something. It would be gracious, I am sure. The French love him.

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