Fred Magdoff, professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont, joined Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear Tuesday to discuss California's wildfires.
"It's ridiculous, like most of the things he tweets," Magdoff told Sputnik. "It has no basis in reality. It's a silly thing to tweet, especially so in the midst of the fires. The insensitivity of it is an understatement. The gross misuse of communications by the person that holds the highest office in the country. It's unbelievable," he added.
Trump's tweets also angered firefighters' organizations, who accused the president of politicizing an environment disaster.
"I personally find that statement very hurtful to all first responders, who are putting their lives on the line to protect lives and property," Daryl Osby, the Los Angeles County fire chief, said during a Monday press conference, Bloomberg reported. "We're in extreme climate change now. We can't control the climate."
Scott Austin, president of the Pasadena Firefighters Association, also replied to Trump's tweet, writing, "Mr. President, with all due respect, you are wrong. The fires in So. Cal are urban interface fires and have NOTHING to do with forest management. Come to SoCal and learn the facts & help the victims."
Three major fires are currently raging in California, with the Camp Fire hitting its north, and the Woolsey Fire and the Hill Fire hitting its south. The disaster, which started on Thursday and quickly spread across the state, has already destroyed about 7,000 buildings and devastated more than 42,000 hectares of the state's territory.