Officials in California have revealed that President Donald Trump nearly flooded the region’s farms when his administration tried to send an excessive amount of water south, a feat he bragged about on Friday.

“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!” Trump gloated in a Truth Social post.

Experts told The New York Times that the water released by the Army Corps on Friday has no way of reaching the region affected by the wildfires, which is over 200 miles away, and could have been useful to farmers months from now as irrigation.

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    Flood the fields now, then they won’t have enough water in the summer dry season to irrigate the fields with. Good thinking, moron.

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      4913 hours ago

      How cute, you think he’s thinking that far ahead.

      6 months from now, when crops fail because of this bullshit, he’ll blame it on the Green New Deal.

      Then he’ll probably try to irrigate the fields with water straight from the Pacific Ocean. “Free unlimited water, right at our doorstep? So what if our food tastes a little more salty? Free Water = less costs = cheaper food #MAGA”

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        How cute, you think he isn’t doing it on purpose.

        Seriously though, stop pretending Trump is incompetent. Because it carries with it an implicit assumption of good intent, characterizing what he does as a mistake paradoxically gives him too much credit.

        Even if he is incompetent, there are enough competent people around him to negate it as any sort of excuse. Trump absolutely knows that this is fucking over California – “woke” urban people and Big Ag alike – and he insisted upon it anyway because he is malicious and intending to destroy.

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          He can be both malicious and incompetent. The two don’t have to be mutually exclusive. A competent man with malicious intent in Trump’s position would be able to do a lot more damage.

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        1312 hours ago

        Then when the plants all die because they can’t absorb water he’ll blame fire prevention, which of course is DEI. 175 million people will agree with him and the rest shrug.

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      1012 hours ago

      In his office a few days ago: “Fire bad. Water puts fire out. More water means more better.”

      “But Mr President, what about the flo-”

      “YOU’RE FIRED. I SAID MORE WATER!”