President-elect Donald Trump inaccurately blamed water shortages in Los Angeles on policies meant to preserve an endangered fish called the Delta smelt.

Rather than months without rain or the effects of climate change, figures like Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. are pointing to a familiar scapegoat as entire neighborhoods burn.

It’s hard to ignore the fact that California’s leaders made DEI a priority over anything else in the state, including battling wildfires.

Once considered an environmental champion as CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk took to X to blame Democrats and DEI for the LA wildfires.

Earlier in the program, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld appeared to criticize officials who “downgraded competence for complexion and for sexual identity” while remarking on the fires, which have killed at least 10 people and burned at least 10,000 structures in the region.

The finger-pointing at diversity and inclusion efforts is part of a broader push to blame liberal policies for the perception of chaos and lawlessness in blue states.

Jesse Watters of Fox News recycled this photo but also declined to spell out why he believed women are unable to handle the job of being upper management at a fire department. Watters also griped that the fire chief had marched in Pride parades and claimed,

As female firefighters are working overtime and risking their lives to fight the devastating California wildfires, MAGA manbabies like Matt Walsh, from the safety of their cozy podcast offices, are blaming women for the natural disaster and declaring they shouldn’t be allowed to be firefighters.

Conservative condemnation of diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives reached new heights Wednesday when MAGA world laid blame on its frequent boogeyman for the disastrous California wildfires.