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.

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    6 months ago

    Flood the fields now, then they won’t have enough water in the summer dry season to irrigate the fields with. Good thinking, moron.

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        6 months ago

        How cute, you think he isn’t doing it on purpose.

        Seriously though, stop pretending Trump is incompetent. Because it carries with it an implicit assumption of good intent, characterizing what he does as a mistake paradoxically gives him too much credit.

        Even if he is incompetent, there are enough competent people around him to negate it as any sort of excuse. Trump absolutely knows that this is fucking over California – “woke” urban people and Big Ag alike – and he insisted upon it anyway because he is malicious and intending to destroy.

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        Then when the plants all die because they can’t absorb water he’ll blame fire prevention, which of course is DEI. 175 million people will agree with him and the rest shrug.

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      In his office a few days ago: “Fire bad. Water puts fire out. More water means more better.”

      “But Mr President, what about the flo-”

      “YOU’RE FIRED. I SAID MORE WATER!”