BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell is really out here on Facebook trying to convince the Commonwealth that Donald Trump made the sky turn yellow.

In a post Wednesday afternoon on her official page, Campbell wrote: "Have you seen the hazy, yellow skies above Massachusetts? The wildfire smoke blowing in is a stark reminder that the climate crisis is here. If Trump succeeds in abandoning his duty to curb greenhouse gas emissions, wildfires like this will become more common. I'm suing because we can't wait to act."

The Commonwealth's chief legal officer, in other words, watched some smoke drift over the state and immediately blamed the president of the United States.

The wildfire smoke behind the hazy skies over Massachusetts this week is drifting in from Canadian wildfires — the same seasonal pattern that has painted New England skies orange and yellow for years. Quebec and Ontario have been burning for weeks. The smoke plumes travel south on the prevailing winds and settle over New England. Meteorologists have been briefing this pattern all summer.

Which pushes the AG's Trump-caused-the-yellow-skies claim well past the boundaries of what even the most climate-alarmed academics have been willing to argue in public.

Campbell's post did not name the specific lawsuit she was referencing. Her office has joined a long list of multi-state coalition lawsuits against the Trump administration since January — an office activity that has become the day job under the sitting AG. Whichever suit she meant, none of them will move the smoke out of the sky over Boston any faster than the wind currently pushing it in.

Campbell — frequently mentioned in speculation about the 2026 governor's race — has spent much of her tenure as attorney general suing the federal government. Wednesday's post is the latest example of an office that has increasingly used social media to blame national politics for local weather.

The Facebook post drew more than 800 comments in the first three hours.