Seth Meyers praised Los Angeles firefighters and emergency staff who’ve been serving to across the clock to place out the devastating blazes throughout town.
“It’s a harrowing tragedy of unimaginable devastation, and we, before everything, need to ship our ideas and our like to everybody who’s been affected,” Meyers mentioned on the high of his A Nearer Look section.
“The photographs are surreal. The loss is incalculable, however within the face of that loss, mates and neighbors and strangers alike are banding collectively to assist each other. The bravery of firefighters and emergency staff has been second to none. No firefighter ought to ever must pay for a beer or, as a result of it’s LA, a matcha smoothie ever once more. The kindness and compassion and resourcefulness and solidarity on show have been nothing in need of breathtaking and awe inspiring,” he added.
Afterwards, nonetheless, Meyers turned to a daily enemy: Donald Trump. The NBC host slammed the previous and soon-to-be present President’s response to the tragedy, the place he blamed Governor Gavin Newsom and a made up doc – the Water Restoration declaration – in addition to fish.
“Trump is mendacity about water, this time, the water that courageous firefighters are utilizing to battle the wildfires,” Meyers mentioned. “The firefighters are doing brave work. After which there’s the President elect, who has determined to chime in, to not assist, however to unfold bullshit that may simply make the emergency response tougher.”
On The Each day Present, host Desi Lydic additionally took on Trump’s response to the tragedy, which has affected a whole bunch of 1000’s of individuals in Southern California.
“The story dominating the information proper now’s the Los Angeles wildfires. There’s been so many challenges as LA staff attempt to management these fires, like water shortages and manpower shortages, however there’s one factor that we have now an limitless provide of: good quaint, made in America, blame,” she mentioned. “In fact, one of many nation’s main blame producers is Donald Trump.”
Trump has additionally been blaming Newsom for insurance policies associated to the Delta smelt fish. “For the report, no, the LA fires don’t have anything to do with smelt. However in Trump’s protection, phrases are onerous, and smelt solely has one syllable, whereas local weather change has three,” Lydic mentioned.
She additionally poked enjoyable on the Republican response to the fires, blaming range hiring insurance policies. “Girls can’t be firefighters? They let canines be firefighters,” she joked.
Final evening, The Late Present‘s Stephen Colbert supplied particulars of assets that individuals can use to assist these affected. “We all know that individuals of Los Angeles are resourceful, and sort and are doing all the things they’ll to assist each other and we right here need to ship our love and concern to the entire residents of LA who’re dealing with what’s being described as essentially the most harmful hearth within the metropolis’s historical past.”
