Summary

California officials warned that Trump’s order to release massive amounts of water nearly caused severe flooding for farmers.

Trump boasted about the move, claiming it would help fight wildfires, but experts said the water couldn’t reach affected areas, which are over 200 miles away.

The Army Corps of Engineers initially planned to release water at maximum capacity but scaled back after urgent pushback.

Experts warned the water could have been better used months later for irrigation.

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      1210 hours ago

      Anti-intellectualism is one hell of a drug.

      He is going to “common sense” America into Idiocracy. Remember his fantastic solution to COVID (injecting bleach + UV)? Or nuking hurricanes? When you make all the scientists run away, you end up with “the idea sounded good in my head… after a few beers”.

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      3023 hours ago

      He’s so cartoonishly moronic, he makes Portal 2’s Wheatley look like a Harvard graduate.