Meyers then focused on Trump’s Truth Social post in which he claimed California governor Gavin Newsom “refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California.”

Trump blamed the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, in an eyebrow-raising Truth Social post that inaccurately claimed he refused to sign a “water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water” to help put out the fires.

Thursday night’s late-night shows were focused on the devastation of the Los Angeles fires, as well as incoming President Trump’s bizarre response to them. “Daily Show” host Desi Lydic played a clip of Trump rambling on about smelt,

It’s because the president-elect “can’t, and he knows he can’t, and he doesn’t care that he can’t,” said the “Late Night” host.