MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski rained scorn on Donald Trump's boast about the sudden release of water from two dams in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
The president has been patting himself on the back by ordering the Army Corps of Engineers to allow irrigation water into engineered waterways, ostensibly as drought relief after devastating wildfires in the region, but the Los Angeles Times reported that much of the water wound up in retention basins and soaked into the ground – which won't help farmers who depend on the water to irrigate their crops in the summer.
"This is something that President Trump, when he went out to California a week or so back, promised to help," said MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire. "He vowed that he would get water to them, but these reservoirs that the federal agencies ordered opened don't serve Los Angeles at all. It seems to be just a show, akin to how he tried to reverse engineer the hurricane map in Alabama the first time around, and yet, the consequences here are far more real than just an embarrassing photo op. This could deprive farmers of much-needed water this summer."
Brzezinski shook her head in dismay.
"This is the wet season, so this water is not helping anybody," she said. "It's not even going to the right place, and he keeps saying, 'I've released the water, I've released the water.' He did, to the wrong place at the wrong time, and it's not helping – it's making things worse. I don't understand."
"It's an interesting pronouncement to make that you release the water when it actually made things worse in the middle of a disaster," Brzezinski added. "We'll be following that and keep asking the questions about it."
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