To the Editor:

In an Aug. 1 article about wildfires in Siberia, you wrote that “ P resident Trump called Mr. Putin to offer American help in battling the infernos.”

Meanwhile, when California battled wildfires in 2018 and again this year, Mr. Trump threatens to cut federal aid for assisting California. I guess we know where Mr. Trump’s loyalties lie.

Mr. Trump says his threats to cut off wildfire aid to California are because our state has done a “ t errible job of forest management.” Maybe nobody told him that 57 percent of forested land in California is federally owned and managed, and only about 3 percent is state or locally owned.

More likely, he has been told that but chooses to ignore it, just as he ignores and denies climate change and its impact on fires. Mr. Trump’s willful ignorance is mind-boggling.