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==Claims==
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==2025-01-08 Sat==
===2025-01-08 Sat===
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===Claims===
Trump [[Truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113793724958051185|claimed]] that:
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At '''11:40''', Trump [[Truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113793724958051185|claimed]] that:
* CA Governor [[Gavin Newsom]] refused to sign a "water restoration declaration" that was submitted to him.
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* CA Governor {{l/same|Gavin Newsom}} refused to sign a "{{l/same|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 {{l/wp|Smelt (fish)|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."
 
* The water deficit is so severe that there is "no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes."
===2025-01-28 Fri===
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At '''14:25''', Trump [[Truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113794373085936970|reiterated]] the fire hydrants claim, and added a claim that there is "no money in {{l/sub|pfx=US/gov/|FEMA}}".
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===Reality===
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* There was no "{{l/same|water restoration declaration}}".
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* FEMA is adequately funded for now, due in part to Biden's efforts; see {{l/same|FEMA funding}}.
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* There was plenty of water, including for firefighting needs. That was never the problem.
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==2025-01-28 Fri==
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===Claims===
 
Trump [[Truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113904028349476462|claimed]] that:
 
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
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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]).
 
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]).
==Reality==
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===Reality===
 
* There is no such pipeline.
 
* There is no such pipeline.
 
* No water supply to California was ever "turned off".
 
* No water supply to California was ever "turned off".
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* The military did not even ''enter'' California. ([https://archive.ph/feUKl CA DWR])
 
* 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.
==Follow-up==
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===Follow-up===
 
* '''2025-01-28'''
 
* '''2025-01-28'''
 
** '''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".
 
** '''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".

Latest revision as of 02:02, 2 February 2025

2025-01-08 Sat

Claims

At 11:40, Trump claimed that:

At 14:25, Trump reiterated the fire hydrants claim, and added a claim that there is "no money in FEMA".

Reality

  • There was no "water restoration declaration".
  • FEMA is adequately funded for now, due in part to Biden's efforts; see FEMA funding.
  • There was plenty of water, including for firefighting needs. That was never the problem.

2025-01-28 Fri

Claims

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.»

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