Gavin Newsom is still on dementia watch.
The California governor reignited speculations about the state of Donald Trump’s mental faculties after the president rehashed a long-debunked claim about the state’s response to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires in January.
During a rambling speech awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday, Trump once again claimed that California’s response to the wildfires was hobbled by its refusal to let water come in from the Pacific Northwest—even though that doesn’t connect to the state’s water systems.
“If we didn’t go into Los Angeles early on in the administration… we would have lost our city,” he said. “Now they already lost 25,000 houses to fire because they wouldn’t let the water come in fr