Thursday evening’s late-night reveals had been targeted on the devastation of the Los Angeles fires, in addition to incoming President Trump’s weird response to them.

“Day by day Present” host Desi Lydic performed a clip of Trump rambling on about smelt, persevering with to unfold a debunked conspiracy concept concerning the state’s water provide.

“I attempted to get Gavin Newsom to permit water to return — you’d have great water on the market — they ship it out to the Pacific, as a result of they’re attempting to guard a tiny little fish — which is in different areas, by the way in which — known as the smelt. For the sake of the smelt, they haven’t any water,” Trump stated.

Lydic provided a rebuttal, saying “And for the document, no, the L.A. fires don’t have anything to do with smelt. However in Trump’s protection, phrases are arduous. And smelt solely has one syllable, whereas local weather change has three.”

Watch the “Day by day Present” phase beneath.

Seth Meyers additionally touched on Trump’s wildfire conspiracy theories on “Late Evening,” responding to a Fact Social submit that stated, “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to signal the water restoration declaration put earlier than him that will have allowed hundreds of thousands of gallons of water, from extra rain and snow soften from the North, to move every day into many elements of California, together with the areas which are at the moment burning in a just about apocalyptic manner. He needed to guard an primarily nugatory fish known as a smelt, by giving it much less water (it didn’t work!), however didn’t care concerning the individuals of California. Now the last word value is being paid. I’ll demand that this incompetent governor permit lovely, clear, contemporary water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA! He’s the blame for this. On high of all of it, no water for fireplace hydrants, not firefighting planes. A real catastrophe!”

Meyers responded by saying, “You heard Trump, Newsom refused to signal the Water Restoration Declaration, a really actual doc that undoubtedly exists, proper?” He then lower to a MSNBC phase confirming that no such doc exists.

“However I trusted the experience of the man who stated water that comes from heaven is known as rain,” Meyers stated in response.

Watch the “Late Evening” phase beneath.