Trump is Mentally Constraint and Incapable of Being Open Minded-I'll Prove it to you

By By Camille von Kaenel and Annie Snider

The needed Water, Trump gave them water and wanted to tell the world what he did. But because he is lazy and don't care about environment impacts and all that jazz, He ordered the Army Engineers to give them water except he was going to Drown them. He didn't know he was going to drawn those people , but why? Lazy. Modus Operandi-His MO

SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms.  

"Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!" he said in a post on his social media site. 

Local officials had to talk the Army Corps of Engineers down after it abruptly alerted them Thursday afternoon it was about to increase flows from two reservoirs to maximum capacity — a move the agency said was in response to Trump directing the federal government to "maximize" water supplies. 

Before the Corps ratcheted down its plan, local authorities scrambled to move equipment and warn farms about possible flooding, said Victor Hernandez, who oversees water management on one of the rivers, the Kaweah in Tulare County. He said the Corps gave him one hour notice on Thursday. 

"I've been here 25 years, and I've never been given notice that quick," Hernandez said. "That was alarming and scary." 

The incident is the latest chapter in an ongoing feud between Trump and state authorities that has been turbo-charged by the Los Angeles fires, which the president has used to reignite long-running complaints about water management that had nothing to do with the response to the disaster. 

An Army Corps spokesperson tied the releases to Trump’s executive order on Sunday directing all federal agencies to maximize water deliveries in order to respond to the fires that started in Los Angeles earlier this month. 

"Consistent with the direction in the Executive Order on Emergency Measures to Provide Water Resources in California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Success Lake to ensure California has water available to respond to the wildfires," Gene Pawlik said in a statement. 

While releasing water from reservoirs before a big storm, like the one expected to hit Northern California this weekend, is standard flood-control procedure to avoid overflowing dams, Hernandez said the Army Corps’ Thursday plan would have released far more water than needed. He said releasing the water at the capacity the Corps had planned to would have flooded both the Kaweah and Tule rivers, where the Corps' reservoirs are located. 

"Channel capacity is very dangerous,” Hernandez said. "People don't understand that [with] channel capacity, you're going to have flood damage down below." 

Trump since his first term and during his presidential campaigns has repeatedly vowed to send more water to Central Valley farmers in the state's conservative heartland. He incorrectly blamed the temporary lack of water in Los Angeles hydrants during wildfires earlier this month on the state’s water management policies, though the state’s reservoirs are at or near historic levels right now and the hydrants went dry because of the high local demand. He's also threatened to withhold disaster aid unless California goes along with his moves to deliver more water. 

Officials from his Department of Government Efficiency visited a federal water-pumping station in Northern California on Monday, after which Trump posted on Truth Social that "The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER." California officials clarified Monday that the federal pumps had been down due to electrical maintenance. 

But a former senior Bureau of Reclamation official said moves like the one in Tulare County could endanger property and lives. Reclamation is the primary federal agency with authority over delivering water in the West, while the Army Corps is largely responsible for flood control. 

"Something really bad could happen because of their nonsensical approach," the former official, who was granted anonymity because of the issue's political sensitivity, said. "Floods are real. This isn’t playing around with a software company." 

Rick Brown, the public affairs officer for the Army Corps of Engineers in Sacramento, said Friday the two reservoirs had hit water levels high enough on Thursday to trigger standard flood control releases. 

He referred further questions about the decision to maximize water releases to Army Corps headquarters. 

Hernandez said he was told by Jenny Fromm, the Army Corp's chief water manager in Sacramento, that the decision came from “somewhere above.” The White House did not respond to a request for comment on whether it ordered the releases. 

Hernandez said that after he resisted the decision, Fromm told him the Corps would release the water at a third of the original planned speed, rather than at maximum capacity. Aaron Fukuda, the general manager of the Tulare Irrigation District, also confirmed the Army Corps reduced flood releases after local officials pushed back. 

Firefighters had almost completely contained the Palisades and Eaton fires as of early Friday. The Army Corps did not respond to a question about how the water would reach Los Angeles, about 200 miles away. Hernandez said the water would go to Tulare Lake, a dry lakebed that last filled up during record-high rainfall in 2023. 

Other water experts said it would have been nearly impossible to divert the water to Los Angeles at the speed the Corps originally planned to release it. There is a rarely used state valve that can redirect Tulare Lake floodwaters into the aqueduct that carries water further south into Los Angeles, but neither state nor federal officials responded to a question asking if they would turn it on. 

Hernandez said he thinks the current releases are still too much because, he said, the reservoir has enough capacity to absorb any coming storm and would not overflow. 

Dumping the water from Lake Kaweah and Success Lake poses a flood risk to downstream communities, he said, like the town of Porterville, which nearly flooded during rainstorms in 2023. It also reduces the amount of irrigation water available to farmers during the driest months of the year. The snowpack in the Southern Sierra Nevada that California depends on for water supplies in the summer has dipped to 47 percent of average for this time of year after a dry January, according to state estimates released Friday. 

"We need to keep every bit that we have, because this potentially is irrigation water that we have up there," Hernandez said. 

He said he and board members at his water district had called on members of Congress to intervene, including Democratic Rep. Jim Costa and Republican Reps. David Valadao and Vince Fong . None responded to requests for comment. 

Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla sent Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, whose Defense Department oversees the Army Corps, a letter on Friday night asking him who directed the releases, how the water would be transported to Los Angeles, how much notice was given and what the impact would be on local communities. 

"Unscheduled water releases require close coordination with local officials and safety personnel, as well as downstream agricultural water users, in order to reduce flood risks to communities and farms," wrote Padilla. "Based on the urgent concerns I have heard from my constituents, as well as recent reporting, it appears that gravely insufficient notification was given, recklessly endangering residents downstream."

Introduction at the other End ( Doesn't sound right does it? But fitting).

I wanted to bring your attention after you read this story and bring you some short thoughts: *Trump Stop funding for all Programs that keep millions of people alive. What were all these people supposed to do/ Just die because Trump made it happen/ No he change his mind when heat developed because he does not know how to deal with descent which is one of the first quality that any manager need leave alone the President.

* He pardons all the convicts of  about 1600 jan-6rs. Started out by looking at each case. One of the people involved said he got tired and said " F* taking too long,  pardon all of them off". That is Trump. He is lazy and that is why ALL his companies have failed. No not the scams like Trump University and donate money to the Vets. They succeeded and he got millions but guess what? When he started running for president the truth had to come out. He is lazy on being diligent as a manager but a scam? He can come out with, while he sits on his gold plated toilet. How is your toilet?

He does not have the patience, fortitude but most important the intelligence to have a plan B but even if there is no plan B stay engage on plan A, Get someone to help you! He can't. Look at the list of nominees for then most important jobs in the world. Drinking problem, Liars, stupid and one who is just crazy. Why? he learn from Trump 01 He needs all the accolades, all the credit. He can't have someone more smart than him and that is a low flag pole.That's the only thing he is got. Even when he is wrong, he says he was right or meant it the other way all along.

The American people have had the most information than from any other candidate for President but 48% decided they want to totally destroy the government and start all over. Stupid thinking because What, Who is the government ? They, We are the Government! By destroying the government they are destroying their livelihoods and themselves. The only people making money would be Private Doctors and the Coroner's offices that work on per case. And of coarse those that have put their investment on Trump's failure. The rich dudes.With Trump failure are the failure of people like him. Too lazy to look up the in formation from neutral sources and mentally challenged for not knowing what neutral sources are.

Adam Gonzalez, Writer