A week after he removed the United States from the Paris climate accord and ordered a series of rollbacks on environmental regulations, Trump claimed on January 27 the US military "just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest."
"The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER," the US president wrote in a January 27 post on his platform, Truth Social -- echoing earlier claims he made in the aftermath of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, falsely stating California could solve its drought crisis, worsened by human-induced climate change, by simply opening a valve.
Posts on X quickly followed, stating that Trump sent the "military to turn the water back on."
"I trust everyone understands the seismic impact of what's occurring here with Trump effectively letting the water that's been long diverted into the ocean, to flow down into California. Imagine the visible impact this will cause as the state greens quickly and the water flows filling her streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs thereby exposing the grand deception of drought as being the cause," a January 28 post on X says.
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A screenshot of an X post taken on January 29, 2025
The claim was reiterated in a White House press briefing on January 28 (archived here).
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