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The internet was quick to correct President Donald Trump on Monday after he blasted Maryland's Democratic governor over a sewage spill in the Potomac River, then was mocked for lying about it.

Trump tried to hurl an attack at one of his critics, Gov. Wes Moore, over the incident and claimed via his Truth Social platform that Moore couldn't handle managing the emergency. Wastewater in Maryland and the Potomac Interceptor collapse has been operated by DC Water — not Moore or Democrats, like Trump attempted to claim.

"There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local Democrat Leaders, particularly, Governor Wes Moore, of Maryland," Trump wrote. "A sewer line breach in Maryland has caused millions of gallons of raw sewage to be dumped directly into the Potomac River, a result of incompetent Local and State Management of Essential Waste Management Systems."...

President Donald Trump Monday tried to blame Maryland's Democratic Gov. Wes Moore for a sewage dump in the Potomac River, hurling an attack at one of his most open critics.

Local officials have warned people of the wastewater pipe collapse in the river while Trump tried to claim that Moore couldn't handle the incident, despite that the fact that the wastewater falls under the DC Water utility leadership — not the governor. He also tried to point the finger at California Democrat and Gov. Gavin Newsom, another person who hasn't shied away from challenging Trump, as the president tried to draw similarities to the devastating fires in Pacific Palisades, California in January 2025.

Trump posted the following on his Truth Social platform: ...

Maryland Governor Wes Moore said on Sunday that he was "snubbed" by Donald Trump, and confirmed that a bipartisan group of governors was behind him.

Moore over the weekend took to social media to explain how he had been left out of an event, even after going to the White House for a successful meeting.

"This week, I learned that I was uninvited to this year’s National Governors Association dinner — a decades-long annual tradition meant to bring governors from both parties together to build bonds and celebrate a shared service to our citizens with the President of the United States. My peers, both Democrats and Republicans, selected me to serve as the Vice Chair of the NGA, another reason why it’s hard not to see this decision as another example of blatant disrespect and a snub to the spirit of bipartisan federal-state partnership," the governor wrote. "As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not."...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) pointed out that President Donald Trump's so-called "crackdown" on crime in Washington, D.C. included National Guard troops picking up trash instead of backing up law enforcement.

During a Sunday interview on ABC, Moore told host Martha Raddatz that the National Guard had not been trained for municipal policing.

"You know who is trained for municipal policing?" he noted. "Things like local law enforcement and things like FBI agents and ATF agents who, by the way, in the President's proposed budgets, actually cut funding for them."...

Two dozen Democratic governors met Wednesday and emerged from the meeting unified behind President Joe Biden and his campaign, despite questions over his age and cognitive health following his fumbling debate performance.

Speaking with reporters, Gov. Tim Walz, chair of the Democratic Governors Association, gave a clear message.

"He has had our backs through COVID, through all of the recovery, all that has happened. The governors have his back and we're working together just to make very, very clear on that," he said. "A path to victory in November is the number one priority and that's the number one priority of the president." ...

Baltimore (AFP) - Three heavy lift floating cranes arrived in Baltimore harbor on Friday to begin what Maryland's governor described as a "remarkably complex operation" to clear crumpled girders from a collapsed bridge taken down by an errant container ship. "To see it up close, you realize just how daunting a task this is," Maryland Governor Wes Moore told a news conference after touring the disaster scene in a boat. Migrant groups meantime honored the six Latino construction workers who lost their lives when the Dali container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge long before dawn Tuesday......