Helsinki – Finland’s president isn’t sure where U.S. President Donald Trump got the idea that raking is part of his country’s routine for managing its substantial forests.
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Trump told reporters Saturday while visiting the ruins of the Northern California town where a fire killed at least 76 people that wildfires weren’t a problem in Finland because crews “spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things” to clear forest floors.
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said in an interview published Sunday in the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper that he spoke briefly with Trump about forest management on Nov. 11, when they both were in Paris for Armistice Day events.
Niinisto said their conversation focused on the California wildfires and the surveillance system Finland uses to monitor forests for fires. He remembered telling Trump “We take care of our forests,” but couldn’t recall raking coming up.
The U.S. leader’s comment generated amusement on social media in Finland, which manages its vast forests with scientific seriousness.
Forests cover over 70 percent of Finland’s 338,000 square kilometers. The Nordic country with a population of 5.5 million is home to some of the world’s biggest paper and pulp companies.
Trump is insane. Plain and simple. The man hallucinates or is likely suffering from early stage dementia. “Rake the leaves” – he is clearly out of his mind.
it’s his 3,000th lie.
hold on, I’ve been corrected: it’s his 4,000th lie
Not lies. Alternative facts from an alternate reality in which the earth is flat, Obama was born in Kenya and there are mamy very fine people among the Nazi White Supremists.
Please have a little compassion for the man with dementia. Trump imagines things and there is no attempt to deceive . He apparently had a dream about raking all the forests under Federal control the night after he met with the Finnish President. Not surprisingly he was astonished to learn than there was a country named Finland and it had forests not fins like a fish.
Temperatures in Finland, part of which lies within the Arctic Circle, can drop below minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Even in August, the high temperature is usually in the mid-60s.
California’s Santa Ana winds are dry, desiccating vegetation as they whip through canyons and passes. These type of wind don’t exist in Finland’s relatively flat country.
Rainfall since May where the California Camp fire started, was at 0.7 inches. The May-November Lapland’s capital: 15.76 inches. And Finland has a half-meter of snow during winter.
Finnish forests are mainly filled with tall boreal trees — pine, spruce and birch. Californian vegetation consists of lower-lying chaparral shrub land and small trees, which are more prone to catching fire.
Finnish has something called ground. In the US, Our President Mr. TRump says that we have a floor.
Definition of RAKE
>> A fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits.
to #8 - Have you examined him, you quack Doctor?
The forests that caught fire are federal land so Trump can lecture but it was his administration’s responsibility. Obviously, comparing forests located near the Arctic Circle with the drought-ridden California situation is it’s own brand of ignorance.
Where is Archy? Is he out raking leaves?
he didn’t mean finland, he meant fiji
he didn’t mean Fiji, meant france
he didn’t mean……..
what a putz !!!