Kim Kardashian got a stern rebuke from a well-established actor over her activism amid the devastating fires in Los Angeles.
The 44-year-old reality star was called out by Heat actor Danny Trejo on Wednesday during a conversation with TMZ.
Trejo, 80, took Kim to task for allegedly politicizing the disaster by bringing to light the plight of incarcerated firefighters who have been put to work battling the blaze.
The social media star noted that they make only $1 more per hour in emergency situations, like the current fire fight — which has ‘never been raised with inflation‘ — despite doing incredibly dangerous work.
Trejo — who has first-hand knowledge of the situation after spending a decade in prison on and off and reportedly working as a firefighter while behind bars — objected that it wasn’t the right time for Kim to be talking about incarcerated firefighter compensation.
Incarcerated firefighters haven’t seen the pay for the job go up since 1984, and Kim — who has been blasted for wasting large amounts of water amid California’s draughts — noted that a proposal to bump the emergency bonus pay for the firefighters from an additional $1 per hour to $5 per hour had been shot down.
Instead, the power company Edison International is being investigated over claims that a downed conductor could have started one of the fires.
Multiple lawsuits have since been filed against Southern California Edison over claims that the power company sparked the Eaton fire, which has devastated Altadena and Pasadena.
So far, at least 25 people have died as a result of the LA fires, and more than 180,000 people have been forced to evacuate.