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[[category:US/CA]]
 
==Claims==
 
==Claims==
Trump [[Truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113904028349476462|claimed]] on 2025-01-28 that:
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===2025-01-08 Sat===
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Trump [[Truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113793724958051185|claimed]] that:
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* CA Governor [[Gavin Newsom]] refused to sign a "water restoration declaration" that was submitted to him.
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* This legislation would have "that would have allowed millions of gallons of water" per day into California, including the parts being ravaged by fire.
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* He refused because he wanted to protect {{l/wp|Smelt (fish)|smelt}} habitats.
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* ...by giving them less water.
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* His efforts to protect this fish didn't work.
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* The water deficit is so severe that there is "no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes."
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===2025-01-28 Fri===
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Trump [[Truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113904028349476462|claimed]] that:
 
* the US military has "turned on the water" to California
 
* the US military has "turned on the water" to California
 
* ...giving it access to a supply "flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond"...
 
* ...giving it access to a supply "flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond"...
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* No water supply to California was ever "turned off".
 
* No water supply to California was ever "turned off".
 
* The military did not "restore water" to California.
 
* The military did not "restore water" to California.
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* The military did not even ''enter'' California. ([https://archive.ph/feUKl CA DWR])
 
* 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.
==Reception==
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==Follow-up==
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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* '''2025-01-28'''
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** '''06:35''' (@[[X-Twitter]]): The post was reshared approvingly in a [https://archive.ph/d4k6k pinned post] 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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** '''09:19''' (@[[X-Twitter]]): The [[US/gov/DoGE|Department of Governmental Efficiency]] [https://x.com/DOGE/status/1884245022041858392 posted] congratulations to the administration and the {{l/sub|pfx=US/gov/|DOI}} {{fmt/quote|for more than doubling the Federally pumped water flowing toward Southern California in < 72 hours.}}
 
==News==
 
==News==
 
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Revision as of 18:08, 1 February 2025

Claims

2025-01-08 Sat

Trump claimed that:

  • CA Governor Gavin Newsom refused to sign a "water restoration declaration" that was submitted to him.
  • This legislation would have "that would have allowed millions of gallons of water" per day into California, including the parts being ravaged by fire.
  • He refused because he wanted to protect smelt habitats.
  • ...by giving them less water.
  • His efforts to protect this fish didn't work.
  • The water deficit is so severe that there is "no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes."

2025-01-28 Fri

Trump claimed 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.
  • The military did not even enter California. (CA DWR)
  • All of the claims in his post are therefore completely false and ridiculous.

Follow-up

  • 2025-01-28
    • 06:35 (@X-Twitter): The post was reshared approvingly in a pinned post by user @AwakenedOutlaw, who amplified a bit on the "fake crisis" theme by stating that this action is "exposing the grand deception of drought".
    • 09:19 (@X-Twitter): The Department of Governmental Efficiency posted congratulations to the administration and the DOI «for more than doubling the Federally pumped water flowing toward Southern California in < 72 hours.»

News

News