Why Did Donald Trump Dump 2 Billion Gallons of Water Into A Hole?

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Because it made him look like he was doing something. People who support him see something happen and it doesn't matter if it's good, bad, or neutral. They just talk to each other about how Trump gets stuff done.

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u/Sad_Confection5902 25d ago

This is entirely it. When you have a propaganda machine catering to you 24 hours a day, the only goal is “do anything”… whatever you do, take some form of action so they can spin shit into gold

Their listeners will just believe it, there will be tangential stories to support that “something happened”, and they will never follow up to see if Trump was lying or not. Now it’s true.

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u/stairs_3730 25d ago

The same way rusky propaganda TV RT continues tells viewers that the orc army keeps advancing and taking more ground everyday. An orc POW prisoner explained it this way: The way RT tells back home we keep taking more ground everyday. We should be in Berlin by now after 3 years." But the magarubes buy it and swallow it whole.

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u/sexfighter 24d ago

"Sir, they are running out of water to fight the fires!"

"Well, release some from the dams, duh. And don't ask an expert if this will work, just do it"

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u/Elmattador 25d ago

So the next dem president needs to make weekly trips to Fox News to call out their bullshit and show the people what they’re really doing.

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u/Royal_Syrup_69_420_1 25d ago

if that would work the world would not be the place it is.

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u/myrichphitzwell 25d ago

You make a giant leap of faith that there will be another non Republican president

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u/Elmattador 24d ago

Good point

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u/TrexPushupBra 25d ago

The people who survive and overthrow this regime should get rid of the companies and institutions that brought us here.

I sadly doubt that we will be allowed to vote our way out of this.

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u/spicyeyeballs 25d ago

I really wish the Dems would have a daily fact check that is released to news outlets.

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u/Jonno_FTW 25d ago

It would never change anything. Any fact checking is immediately denounced as fake news, and your opponent can just spout BS all day today you can never keep up. You'd spend all your time fact checking and nothing else.

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u/spicyeyeballs 25d ago

Selling simple lies is always easier than the complexities of the truth. It wouldn't convince everyone but at least it would be part of the conversation. What ever they are doing now isn't working.

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u/wagglewazzle 25d ago

This was Joseph Goebbels mantra during WWII.

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u/Oceanflowerstar 25d ago edited 25d ago

Those cultists will literally make shit up FOR TRUMP, WITHOUT FOX just to deflect obvious critique

When you show them that there is no way for them to know what they claim, it doesn’t add up logically, and so on, they will tell you that they are entitled to an opinion, they agree to disagree, and other substanceless conversation enders.

These people need to be made to feel stupid. They are the level of intelligence which requires a slap to find direction. They are DRUNK on their own bullshit. They are actualizing their ego through the vessel of Trump to the point that they don’t even know what Trump is, or even themselves anymore. All that matters is that, in the moment, you FEEL that you have won even if you have not.

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u/SunnyDelNorte 25d ago

It was starting to rain and he needed a photo op of “doing something” that our LA first responders hadn’t done yet before the fires were out.

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u/Simsmommy1 25d ago

Yeah, he turned on the tap…..all the water flowed down to the forests……then right straight out into the ocean and was wasted but he got a good photo op of him “turning on the tap” of all the trapped California water…..Trump is a nincompoop.

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u/ManChildMusician 25d ago

This is one of those times where I wish he just lied instead of actually doing it. He follows through at the absolute worst times.

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u/Fecal-Facts 25d ago

Because he's a petty person that hates California

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u/Lovely-Frost77 25d ago

The classic "hater's gonna hate" vibe

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u/oaklandskeptic 25d ago

Because he is spiteful, ignorant and doesn't care for consequences, only messaging.

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u/SweetLovingWhispers 24d ago

They are also forcing people to sell their lands and farms.

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u/Archangel1313 25d ago

Because him and his people are all morons. They act impulsively, while disregarding local experts. The country is being run by a bunch of Dunning Kruger Effect olympians.

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u/trainsacrossthesea 25d ago

Donald Trump is a moron. Full stop.

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 25d ago

This is the key. He’s literally stupid.

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u/mrcorndogman33 25d ago

Sure but he's also a very cruel person who manufactures a problem, then claims to solve it, even though that usually creates an actual problem where there was none before.

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u/trainsacrossthesea 25d ago

Yea, unfortunately History is littered with successful morons.

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u/onlymostlydead 25d ago

Hey now! Show the President the respect he deserves. He's a fucking moron.

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u/Alarmed-Extension289 25d ago

Two 20 something dumbfucks' from DOGE tried showing up and turning the valves themselves but CA water officials wouldn't deal with them as Trump wasn't sworn in yet. Some water in CA is controlled by the Army corps of engineers. So he had them dump it as a political stunt. CA is having a dry year and well be missing this water come summer.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/elon-musks-doge-whiz-kids-took-matters-into-their-own-hands-flew-to-california-to-release-water-during-raging-los-angeles-wildfires/articleshow/118804995.cms?from=mdr

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u/molotov__cocktease 25d ago

Man, I actually tried talking with a trumper about this and they could not wrap their minds around the fact that the water could not be used for the fires and that releasing the water is going to screw the country if California has a drought this year.

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u/karenskygreen 25d ago

Trump is a stable genius, he knows water and water flows. Undoubtedly some woke nut cases set him up and diverted the water to make him look bad.

Or what ever bullshit excuse Trump concocted to explain this.

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u/Superb_Health9413 25d ago

Suspect he believes that all water flows from North to South

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u/psilocin72 25d ago

And his idiot fans will repeat whatever he says even if it is total nonsense and obviously false.

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u/sjmoore69 25d ago

This seems like a good way to bankrupt thousands of family farms and allow hedgefund agriculture to swoop it up at depression level prices. It's a great time to be able to buy a gold card citizenship just in time to snatch up the land that used to be owned by families. Just saying...

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u/Snoo-79741 25d ago

interesting thought

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u/Equivalent_Bother597 25d ago

Because he's actively trying to fuck over as many actual humans as possible.

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u/Raidthefridgeguy 25d ago

So that he could declare a state of emergency later, and demand Canada “turn on tap” of water(spoiler-it does not exist). It is another way to find a reason to annex Canada. It has the added bonus of being able to claim the governor of California is not qualified when drought and fire season rolls around.

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u/Evinceo 25d ago

This is probably giving him too much credit

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u/robotatomica 25d ago

I really hate when people say this. You see no strategies that have paid off? If you don’t, then I think you’re wrong about the goal.

You can think whatever you want of his intellect and competence, but the fact is he has a massive team, which includes billionaires and their teams and resources, and I can guarantee you that almost any EO, comment, act, or decision serves a very specific purpose, is laying groundwork or eroding something.

The tariff thing seems dumb, unless the point is to tank the stock market for brief periods of time so stock can be bought up cheap, or if accelerationism and isolationism is the goal, or if the goal isn’t to make American strong, but to weaken it, so that more extreme measures can be taken under the guise of strengthening it, and for contingencies on executive power can be met, or the interests of new allies, including billionaire private citizens as well as counties we are not used to being allied with, are the new primary focus.

I make no claims, I’m just parroting the ruminations of others, but the fact is, everything so far makes perfect sense and is disturbingly logical if you divorce your expectations from the status quo, and explore what other outcomes may be the goal.

It’s cathartic to call people stupid, but they are making tremendous progress on every single one of their goals. Anyone who doesn’t take that seriously, because they find it comforting to imagine incompetence, will probably end up regretting it imo.

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 25d ago

I think Trump so stupid and think the people pulling his strings are definitely not stupid.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 25d ago

Sure, or, he's a reality tv celebrity who doesn't know how to do anything except create fake drama.

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u/robotatomica 25d ago

If I’m being honest, I think that’s self-soothe. You want to imagine he may be dumb enough to be ineffectual.

But the evidence frankly doesn’t support that, when he is employing strategies that not only ARE bringing them closer to each of their stated and expected goals, but also strategies that we understand WORK.

Yall need to widen your perception of what kinds of strategies can be successful. I don’t really even relate to how so many of yall feel, bc I can’t think of hardly anything he’s said or done that didn’t move his allies closer to their goals.

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u/dern_the_hermit 25d ago

But it's not just him, it's a smorgasbord of bad actors with terrible ideas for craven and cruel purposes. He's just the nexus of all this shit.

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u/Worlds_Worst_Angler 25d ago

Because he’s a fucking moron who only engages in performative bullshit for his legion of brainless cult members.

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u/DanglingTangler 25d ago

Ah fuck. Not pumped to read this as a Canadian. If you fuckers invade, that is super not cool.

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 25d ago

We know! And we won’t.

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u/DanglingTangler 25d ago

Thank you!

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 25d ago

There are many 10’s of millions of us that feel the same way. I’d say a few hundred million actually. Just aghast at this nonsense.

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u/noh2onolife 25d ago

Just an FYI: those signs have been up on I5 for years. They are usually addressed to Biden and Newsom. This isn't a new complaint of Republican farmers in California, and as of 7 days in the south and yesterday afternoon in the north, none of the signs (Northbound or Southbound) about "wasting" water addressed Trump.

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u/Awkward_Bison_267 25d ago

I just saw a sign blaming Newsom. The insanity.

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u/Iwabuti 25d ago

Theatre politics. He wanted to show that he was a man of action and not like Joe Biden.

Results were not important. Just the headline

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u/RobertRowlandMusic 25d ago

Because he's an idiot and everything he does is malicious and performative.

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u/He_Never_Helps_01 25d ago

Because he's a Russian asset.

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u/tvrbok 25d ago

It’s not “politicians” it’s one moron in chief.

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u/Wismuth_Salix 24d ago

And every one of his toady-ass party members.

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u/Randy_Watson 25d ago

To own the libs

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u/drfunkensteinnn 25d ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion/california-delta-water.html

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u/retardrabbit 25d ago

Good read.

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u/Capt1an_Cl0ck 25d ago

Because he’s and idiot who doesn’t know any better.

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u/Glidepath22 25d ago

He’s a fucking idiot is why

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u/LayWhere 25d ago

Because it was Bidens water.

Dont wanna turn the citrus gey now do we

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u/SlippySloppyToad 25d ago

Because he's very stupid.

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u/BJDixon1 25d ago

Wonder how many of those farmers voted for this.

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u/Aolflashback 25d ago

I like how the farmer clearly used to be one of Those assholes with the GIANT Trump signs all along their vast properties, especially right on front of their giant fancy houses. Now look…

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u/General_Strike356 25d ago

Who did the farmers vote for?

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u/Lik2writ 25d ago

Why does a child throw food when angered ?

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u/DandimLee 25d ago

He got confused, and thought that the water would flow south to Los Angeles?

For the proponents of the '4-d chess' version of Trump, he anticipated Canada's reluctance to become the 51st state and general recalcitrance toward the tariffs, so dumped the water so that California farmers wouldn't be able to water their crops this summer so there would be less food grown in the US. In his mind, hungry Americans would be more than happy to invade our neighbors to avoid starving. Waiting with bated breath how he's going to direct us towards invading Canada instead of Mexico.

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u/okteds 25d ago

No confusion. They showed him a map, and the dam where they released the water was above Los Angeles, so clearly it was going to flow towards there.

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u/Consistent_Entry8890 25d ago

stunt and red meat for the cult

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u/ladds2320 25d ago

Why did he wake up this morning? We will never know

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 25d ago

I think he thinks water in a reservoir causes catastrophic dryness and wind

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u/biscaya 25d ago

I'm just gonna go with Stupid. Final answer. Stupid

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u/Blubbernuts_ 25d ago

For a soundbite

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u/Hungry-Selection5849 25d ago

So effing stupid

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u/pieguy00 25d ago

For clout and to own libs or something

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u/Returnyhatman 25d ago

I would like to know how he had the authority and ability to do it at all, and what consequences will be faced by the collaborators that pulled the lever?

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 25d ago

Well, he's the president, which makes him the boss of the army corp of engineers and gives him the legal authority to issue them orders.

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u/--solitude-- 25d ago

Because his head is 99% bone

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u/Bulldog8018 25d ago

I’m surprised he could fit it all in.

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u/Evil_Weevil_Knievel 25d ago

He hates California and he’s going to use it as a pretence to try and get Canadas water.

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u/Nigel_melish01 25d ago

Cause he’s a fking moron

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u/Agitated-Donkey1265 25d ago

To give him a pretext to go after Canada’s water in his bid to annex it?

Which is horrifying

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u/Btankersly66 25d ago

It was to prove to Newsom who has the actual power over California's water supply.

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u/DrDorg 25d ago

The same reason he pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord: to hobble the US ag industry and give Putin the advantage. Putin is sitting on millions of acres of farm land, all trapped under ice. The sooner it melts, the sooner ag industry, extractive industries, and real estate folks can get their hands on it

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u/Rexel450 25d ago

Putin is sitting on millions of acres of farm land, all trapped under ice

But he knows what Ukraine has.

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u/ZenoOfTheseus 25d ago

Because he's stupid AF.

Hurr durr. I'm gonna force California to release dam water. There won't be anymore fires! Hurr durr!

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u/Fast-Damage2298 25d ago

Stupidity

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u/harryx67 25d ago

Misleading the Nation…

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u/Flor1daman08 25d ago

The cult of action for action's sake

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u/Accomplished_Fun6481 25d ago

Propaganda for now, and to cause a new problem he or a buddy will sell the solution to in the hot season and there are water shortages

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u/SeahorseCollector 25d ago

To create a problem that only he has a solution for.

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u/ToughMost6122 25d ago

Because farmers need that irrigation later in the season.

He wants to sabotage crop farmers.

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u/zdragan2 25d ago

I’m willing to be it’s just to make everyone’s life worse.

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u/Sea-Crew-5041 24d ago

I don't know - When you think "who might dump water being saved for times when it might be needed in the future into a hole for no reason?" Don't you kindof think of Trump? It does really have Trump written all over it.

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u/GoggyMagogger 23d ago

he wants drought. he wants famine. he wants pandemic. he wants complete economic failure.

he seeks to create conditions that will prove lethal for 99% of the world's population because those conditions just make the 1% much much wealthier.

hes a criminal. crimes against humanity.

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u/Aggressive-Ad3064 23d ago

It wasn't politicians. It was trump

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u/scaffold_ape 25d ago

When is this sub going to change its name?

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u/AdmiralSaturyn 25d ago

It's name to what?

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