President Donald Trump Monday evening claimed that the army entered California and ‘called in the water’, but state water officers claim that the president’s claim is incorrect.
“The army of the United States has just entered the large state of California and was turned on the water that flowed abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond,” Trump wrote about Truth Social.
“The days of placing a fake environment, about the people, are over. Enjoy the water, California !!!” he added.
But the California Department of Water Resources replied that the army never entered the Golden State and that the state continues to have many water sources.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are touring a burn-related area in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles, California on January 24, 2025. .
“The army did not go in California,” said the department on X. “The federal government restarted the federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supply in South California remains abundant.”
Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire, a Democrat, also pushed back against Trump’s post.
“First, shocker, water from the Pacific Northwest does not flow to the central valley,” said McGuire on X. “Secondly, the federal water pumps were to repair. The delta did not fall in.”
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump Walk with California Gov. Gavin Newsom after arriving at Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Friday, January 24, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
This is after Trump has issued an executive order in which various federal agencies, including the Ministry of Defense and Department of Homeland Security, are issued to determine the more water can be delivered to South California And the central valley, while the state responds to forest fires that have been swept through the Los Angeles area this month.
Trump had said on Friday that two conditions in California must be met before the federal government offers disaster lighting. He said that he wants the legislators to approve the identification legislation of voters and that water supplies must be increased from North California to drier areas further south.
“I want to see two things in Los Angeles. Voter -ID, so that people get the chance to vote, and I want to see that the water is released and come down in Los Angeles and throughout the state,” Trump said reporters In the north of Carolina while he was on a hurricane recovery in that state. “Those are the two things. After that I will be the greatest president who has ever seen California.”
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump meet residents while on January 24, 2025 they visit a burn-related area in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. .
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Trump visited Los Angeles later on Friday to view Damage from the forest fires And meet local officials and residents.
Republicans in the congress have suggested binding wildfire help to an increase in debt ceiling or the changes in California’s fire policy.
