“If they [Canada] managed their forests, they wouldn’t have the fires.”
What FactCheck.org found
It is not possible to eliminate fires in the boreal forest of Canada, and experts have said that large-scale forest management there is infeasible.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump made this claim around 21 July 2026. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 July 2026, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeM6nPNftd0&t=1341s
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