Add this story to the ‘Trump was proper once more’ pile.
Simply three months in the past, when Trump appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast, he talked to Joe in regards to the ongoing situation of water dispersal in California and about how the state may cease wildfires by clearing lifeless bushes from forests.
He urged that the state really has greater than sufficient water to take care of these and different points resembling farming, however progressive environmental insurance policies are standing in the way in which.
Transcript through the American Presidency Challenge:
TRUMP:—Los Angeles, you’ll be able to’t get correct quantities of water and it’s unbelievably costly, and also you might need a home in Beverly Hills, and so they’re really interested by rationing water. Are you able to imagine it?
ROGAN: I may imagine it. I used to stay there.
TRUMP: I used to be, I used to be within the farm nation with a few of the congressmen. We’re driving up a freeway and I say, “How come all this land is so barren?” It’s farmland and it seemed horrible. It was simply brown and unhealthy. I mentioned, “However there’s all the time that little nook that’s so inexperienced and exquisite.” They mentioned, “Now we have no water.” I mentioned, “Do you’ve got a drought?” “No, we don’t have a drought.” I mentioned, “Why don’t you haven’t any water?” As a result of the water isn’t allowed to stream down. It’s received a pure stream from Canada all the way in which up north of water, extra water than they might ever use. And so as to shield a tiny little fish, the water up north will get routed into the Pacific Ocean. Thousands and thousands and tens of millions of gallons of water will get poured…
TRUMP: You possibly can have all the water you want, all of that land would have extra water. The entire thing may very well be like that little patch. Actually, actually I’d say—I used to be with Devin Nunes, a congressman and different congressmen, we had been going up. I used to be visiting them as a result of they requested me to go up and go to their territory and I did. However I saved saying, “Have a look at this land. It’s stunning, but it surely’s so dry.” And I believed they had been going by like a desert like a drought. They mentioned, “No, now we have water, but it surely will get—” So I seemed into it.
ROGAN: What’s the fish?
TRUMP: And I received it accomplished. I received it accomplished. I may have water for all of that land, water to your forests. you already know, Your forests are dry as a bone, okay?
ROGAN: Yeah. Harmful.
TRUMP: That water may very well be routed. you already know, You possibly can have the whole lot. Not solely harmful, billions of {dollars} a 12 months they spend on forest fires. And you already know, there’s a case with the setting. They’re not allowed to rake their forests since you’re not allowed to the touch it. When a tree falls down, after 18 months it turns into very dry. It’s like you already know, actual firewood. It’s unhealthy.
Right here’s the clip:
Donald Trump was mocked for sounding the alarm on the California water/fireplace disaster throughout his interview with Joe Rogan.
Seems, he was proper.
Trump spent practically 7 minutes ranting in regards to the situation, blasting Newsom for doing nothing to repair the issue.
Trump particularly… pic.twitter.com/zSls82byPo
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 8, 2025
Trump was proper, however the typical suspects couldn’t permit Trump to be proper.
Throughout Donald Trump’s first time period, he tried to extend water diversions on federal land to assist California’s water provide.
The State of California and numerous environmental teams sued him and received.
As soon as once more, proudly owning the orange man took precedence over defending individuals.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 8, 2025
And now we see the true influence of all of this as California is battling the worst fires in a era and their fireplace hydrants are empty. It’s insanity.