Add this story to the ‘Trump was right again’ pile.
Just three months ago, when Trump appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast, he talked to Joe about the ongoing issue of water dispersal in California and about how the state could stop wildfires by clearing dead trees from forests.
He suggested that the state actually has more than enough water to deal with these and other issues such as farming, but progressive environmental policies are standing in the way.
Transcript via the American Presidency Project:
TRUMP:—Los Angeles, you can’t get proper amounts of water and it’s unbelievably expensive, and you might have a house in Beverly Hills, and they’re actually thinking about rationing water. Can you believe it?
ROGAN: I could believe it. I used to live there.
TRUMP: I was, I was in the farm country with some of the congressmen. We’re driving up a highway and I say, “How come all this land is so barren?” It’s farmland and it looked terrible. It was just brown and bad. I said, “But there’s always that little corner that’s so green and beautiful.” They said, “We have no water.” I said, “Do you have a drought?” “No, we don’t have a drought.” I said, “Why don’t you have no water?” Because the water isn’t allowed to flow down. It’s got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north of water, more water than they could ever use. And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of water gets poured…
TRUMP: You could have all of the water you need, all of that land would have more water. The whole thing could be like that little patch. Literally, literally I’d say—I was with Devin Nunes, a congressman and other congressmen, we were going up. I was visiting them because they asked me to go up and visit their territory and I did. But I kept saying, “Look at this land. It’s beautiful, but it’s so dry.” And I thought they were going through like a desert like a drought. They said, “No, we have water, but it gets—” So I looked into it.
ROGAN: What is the fish?
TRUMP: And I got it done. I got it done. I could have water for all of that land, water for your forests. you know, Your forests are dry as a bone, okay?
ROGAN: Yeah. Dangerous.
TRUMP: That water could be routed. you know, You could have everything. Not only dangerous, billions of dollars a year they spend on forest fires. And you know, there’s a case with the environment. They’re not allowed to rake their forests because you’re not allowed to touch it. When a tree falls down, after 18 months it becomes very dry. It’s like you know, real firewood. It’s bad.
Here’s the clip:
Donald Trump was mocked for sounding the alarm on the California water/fire crisis during his interview with Joe Rogan.
Turns out, he was right.
Trump spent nearly 7 minutes ranting about the issue, blasting Newsom for doing nothing to fix the problem.
Trump specifically… pic.twitter.com/zSls82byPo
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 8, 2025
Trump was right, but the usual suspects couldn’t allow Trump to be right.
During Donald Trump’s first term, he tried to increase water diversions on federal land to help California’s water supply.
The State of California and various environmental groups sued him and won.
Once again, owning the orange man took priority over protecting people.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 8, 2025
And now we see the real impact of all of this as California is battling the worst fires in a generation and their fire hydrants are empty. It’s madness.
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