Donald Trump recently made a bizarre claim, blaming the delta smelt—a small, endangered fish native to California—for the wildfires ravaging Southern California. But let’s be clear: this claim is baseless and ignores science.Water used to protect the delta smelt in Northern California is entirely separate from firefighting supplies in Southern California, which come from local aqueducts and groundwater. The real drivers of these wildfires are high winds and climate change, not water mismanagemen