No doubt president Trump could have more used phrases such as clear the forest floor, or remove the dead timber from the forest floor, but instead he chose to say rake the forest floor (helping to prevent wildfires), which Morning Joe and Mika today stupidly seized upon attempting mockery of the president (showing a picture of a woman in Finland raking in the forest), yet throwing egg-on-their own faces by failing to address the problem of dead wood on the forest floor. It’s estimated that about 150,000,000 trees in California have died since 2010, now resting dried-out on the forest floor, millions of tons of kindling which Joe and Mika must think is key habitat for the scruffy-weasel or whatever.
