Governor's Trump 'dementia' taunt

Newsom hits back at fires jibe

- BY CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN US Editor

CALIFORNIA Governor Gavin Newsom has suggested Donald Trump is suffering from dementia as the pair's war of words intensified.

It came after the 79-year-old President went off on a rambling tangent about wildfires in his recent Cabinet meeting, which turned into a love-in among his Republican colleagues.

Mr Trump said of the infernos that gripped California in January and the fact fire hydrants ran dry: "There was no water.