During a speech last week in Seattle, President Joe Biden falsely claimed that he had flown over every major wildfire in America, then quickly corrected himself of the short-lived tall tale.
“I’ve flown over every major wildfire in this country with FEMA since — not every; a couple I didn’t, but the vast majority of them — and it’s devastating. I’ve seen it from helicopters with FEMA just flying over here and Idaho. I didn’t get to go to Oregon, but California. It’s absolutely devastating,” the President said.
Biden announced he was signing an executive order sign an executive order, “To strengthen our forest on federal lands and make them and the local economies they support more resilient in the face of wildfires.”
The President later blamed his generation for massive deforestation across America in the post-World War II era.
“You know, if you compare the map of North America in 1620 — and we have some of these maps — with America today, you’ll see much of our devas- — how much we’ve devastated our forests,” he said. “I mean, it used to be — if you’d look, from the Atlantic Coast almost to the Mississippi River was heavy forests, and we took it all down over those years.”