Cuckoo Award

I haven't given any awards lately because I could have given out a dozen a day with the Trump administration alone. I hope he is not doing it out of spite but rather out of ignorance. But Trump is flooding out the famers because of his cuckoo idea that more water in the rivers will help put out the fires.

 

So what earned Trump today's award...

Farmers Plead ‘Stop Our Fields Flooding’ as Trump Opens Dams

Trump gloated Friday about sending billions of gallons of water to southern

Daily Beast

By Liam Archacki 

Feb. 2 2025

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.

Over the last month, the president has often pushed for more water to be directed to southern California to help fight the fires that have devastated the area.

Behind the scenes on Friday, though, officials told Politico that they had to talk down the Army Corps of Engineers after they were alerted on short notice about a sudden—and excessive—influx of water.

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Victor Hernandez, who manages the water on a river in Tulare County, said he scrambled to alert farmers to the possibility of flooding before the Corps backed off. He said he was only given one hour’s notice.

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

So today's award goes to the idiotic idea that flooding out famers helped put out the fires.