Trump gloated Friday about sending billions of gallons of water to southern California.

Officials in California have revealed that President Donald Trump nearly flooded the region’s farms when his administration tried to send an excessive amount of water south, a feat he bragged about on Friday.

“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory!” Trump gloated in a Truth Social post.

Experts told The New York Times that the water released by the Army Corps on Friday has no way of reaching the region affected by the wildfires, which is over 200 miles away, and could have been useful to farmers months from now as irrigation.

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Man, the media continues to fail to address Trump.

    • NYT: “Trump Officials Release Water in California That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use”
    • WP: “Trump opened the ‘valve’ on California water. It will probably be wasted.”
    • LAT: “Acting on Trump’s order, federal officials opened up two California dams”
    • Newseek: “Trump Administration Releases California Dam Water Without State Approval”

    LA Times and Newseek both completely omit that it won’t help the wildfires from their title. Maybe the State didn’t get asked, but that’s just Trump bypassing those dithering California Dems. WP and NYT both hedge that it probably won’t help or will have little use, but the truth is it won’t have any use for the fires and should be reported as such. It’s not experts being biased or cautious or the problem being hard so it’s not a simple solution, it’s useless.

    The only mainstream publication on the first page of my search that kinda got it was Politico, but even they didn’t mention that it was useless for the fires.

    • Politico: “Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.”