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He never mentions the connection, but anyone who has been following the news might have assumed that the military was acting on [[US/president/EO/2025/01/24/3|his orders]] of 4 days earlier and that therefore Trump essentially put out the wildfires ''and'' fixed a politically-engineered environmental crisis with a stroke of the pen.
 
He never mentions the connection, but anyone who has been following the news might have assumed that the military was acting on [[US/president/EO/2025/01/24/3|his orders]] of 4 days earlier and that therefore Trump essentially put out the wildfires ''and'' fixed a politically-engineered environmental crisis with a stroke of the pen.
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The claim was reiterated in a [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/01/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt/ White House press briefing] on January 28 ([https://perma.cc/T4FJ-RQEB archive]).
 
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* There is no such pipeline.
 
* There is no such pipeline.
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* The military did not "restore water" to California.
 
* The military did not "restore water" to California.
 
* All of the claims in his post are therefore completely false and ridiculous.
 
* All of the claims in his post are therefore completely false and ridiculous.
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==Reception==
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The post was reshared approvingly in a [https://archive.ph/d4k6k pinned post] on [[X-Twitter]] by user @AwakenedOutlaw, who amplified a bit on the "fake crisis" theme by stating that this action is "exposing the grand deception of drought".
 
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==News==
 
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Revision as of 16:36, 1 February 2025

Claims

Trump claimed on 2025-01-28 that:

  • the US military has "turned on the water" to California
  • ...giving it access to a supply "flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond"...
  • ... presumably via some pipeline which he believes exists and had been turned off.

In that same post, he also implies that :

  • The fact of this water-supply having been turned off is what created California's environmental crisis.
  • Having restored the supply has ended that crisis.
  • The crisis was fake because the water could have been turned back on at any time.
  • The water was turned off as a political stunt by environmentalists.

He never mentions the connection, but anyone who has been following the news might have assumed that the military was acting on his orders of 4 days earlier and that therefore Trump essentially put out the wildfires and fixed a politically-engineered environmental crisis with a stroke of the pen.

The claim was reiterated in a White House press briefing on January 28 (archive).

Reality

  • There is no such pipeline.
  • No water supply to California was ever "turned off".
  • The military did not "restore water" to California.
  • All of the claims in his post are therefore completely false and ridiculous.

Reception

The post was reshared approvingly in a pinned post on X-Twitter by user @AwakenedOutlaw, who amplified a bit on the "fake crisis" theme by stating that this action is "exposing the grand deception of drought".

News

News