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Trump is going to California to turn the water on.
It will be Trump’s first presidential trip since his return to office, and it will be to a state with Democratic leaders he has repeatedly blamed for persistent blazes, arguing that wildlife protections have impeded access to water.
Speaking to reporters before departing the White House on Friday, Trump said the fires “could have been put out,” but “they still haven’t for whatever reason.”
“It would be fine if they turned the water on,” Trump said.
Those California hippies are so silly, not turning the water on. Maybe they’re too stoned to find the tap.
Trump spent much of an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday railing against a response that he said makes the country look “helpless” and “weak.”
He suggested federal aid to California could be withheld over state efforts to protect the Delta smelt, a small fish that has become a fixation of Trump’s and even the subject of a Day One memorandum. The directive, which calls for “putting people over fish,” would upend the state’s water policy.
Trump has blamed water shortages in the Los Angeles region on policies meant to preserve the endangered fish, arguing more water needs to flow from Northern California to Southern California.
Very true, and more water needs to flow from the oceans to the deserts, because the oceans have way more than they need and the deserts have hardly any. Once we get that imbalance straightened out everything will be fine. You’ll have your golf condos stretching to the horizon north south east and west.
“I don’t think we should give California anything until they let the water run down,” he said in the Fox News interview.
Damn right. Let it burn.
What the hell, the California Golden Bear has been extinct for a hundred years. What’s a few more species? I won’t be surprised if Trump tries to repeal the Endangered Species Act altogether. Gotta keep exploiting those resources until the bitter end, and yes, eventually there will be a bitter end. Politics won’t save us.
I wonder how he’s going to blame WNC’s problems on the Democrats, surely it’s their fault somehow.
I’m sure one of his aides will keep whispering “Righty tighty, lefty loosie” to hm.
So sayeth Mad King Donald, knower of all, seer of all, doer of nothing useful.
Give him a rake and some bottled water to throw, and parachute him into one of the fire zones so he can show everyone exactly how it’s done.
When is he going to rename Kīlauea? (speaking of places he should parachute into)…
Isn’t, y’know, industrial farming a big reason the water “doesn’t run down”? Kind of an important industry for California (and Oregon) and one that benefits the nation as a whole in terms of buying less produce from Mexico. There are loads of environmental concerns from that practice in of itself (and arguments about out of season produce) but it’s a stupid thing for even an extremely stupid Republican to complain about.
It gets worse (because of course it does, this is Trump). He’s talking about abolishing FEMA and leaving emergency response to the states, and he also wants to tie aid to California to having them pass voter ID legislation. (Remember when Biden refused to help North Carolina until they passed gun control legislation? No?)