Rep. Eric Swalwell Eric Michael SwalwellSwalwell calls for creation of presidential crimes commission to investigate Trump when he leaves office 'This already exists': Democrats seize on potential Trump executive order on preexisting conditions Swalwell: Barr has taken Michael Cohen's job as Trump's fixer MORE (D-Calif.) on Monday said President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE "owns a lot of the problem" on forest management, noting the federal government oversees more than half of the forests in California.

Swalwell, who is rumored to be interested in a 2020 presidential bid, made the remark in response to Trump's tweets over the weekend, which blamed California state officials for the wildfires ravaging both sides of the state. The fires have killed 31 people so far, with nearly 230 people missing in Northern California.

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"I’m sorry that so many families are going through this in California," Swalwell said on CNN's "The Situation Room."

"They don’t deserve to be insulted by the president."

"The president should just remain quiet," Swalwell added. "But ... a majority of the forests in California are under the president’s management. He’s been on the job for two years. If he’s blaming forest management, he owns a lot of the problem."

“The President should just remain quiet,” California Rep. Eric Swalwell says about President Trump’s tweet saying the California fires are due to forest mismanagement. https://t.co/OdioTlSjal pic.twitter.com/ePyTYS1HZ2 — The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) November 12, 2018

Trump over the weekend blamed the fires, which are the most destructive in the state's history, on "gross mismanagement" of the forests.

Fire officials and lawmakers were quick to point out that nearly 60 percent of California's forests are under federal oversight.

The areas most damaged by California's ongoing wildfires have been those managed by the federal government. Last year in the state, 742,050 acres of federal land managed by the U.S. Forest Service burned compared to around 505,956 acres of state-managed land.

The Trump administration has also proposed slashing tens of millions of dollars from the federal agencies that oversee the California forests, McClatchy DC reported.

California Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) office on Sunday said they are focused on the wildfires are not Trump's "inane and uninformed tweets."

Brown during a Sunday press conference called the wildfires ravaging the state "the new abnormal," warning environmental disasters will only "intensify" over the next two decades.

"This is not the new normal," Brown said at the press conference. "This is the new abnormal, and this new abnormal will continue, certainly in the next 10, 15, 20 years."