The California Department of Water Resources on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S. military “turned on the water” supply in the state. In a statement on X, formerly Twitter,
Donald Trump said the U.S. military entered California and opened a large flow of water to fight fires, but state officials denied those claims.
President Trump's executive orders on California water will help irrigate Central Valley farms. They won’t do anything to fight wildfires.
President Donald Trump touted sending the military into California to turn on the water and relieve a crisis, but state officials question whether there’s a drop of truth in his claims.
Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, according to an analysis by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.
A video of a large “TRUMP” sign temporarily erected in California in 2020 has been shared online as showing a sign put up ahead of Donald Trump’s swearing-in as the 47th President of the United States on Jan.
Donald Trump has named two conditions that he said he will need to see before agreeing to provide federal disaster relief to California.
Newsom and California are frequently the target of Trump’s ire. Some of his most memorable criticisms of the state have been over how it manages its wildlands in the face of wildfire risk. In his first term, Trump suggested California should be “raking” their forests to clean up dead brush and trees.
The president, who has assailed California’s leaders over wildfires, issued the directive in an executive order that was dated Friday but released on Sunday.
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump traveled to Southern California and met with residents to tour the damage of the Los Angeles wildfires on Friday.
There's been no let-up in the war of words between President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom as Trump arrives in Los Angeles to survey damage from the recent horrific wildfires.