Trump Warned About Potential California Fire Crisis Over Two Months Ago on Rogan’s Podcast

Jan 15

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Story by Samuel Short, The Western Journal

Tell all your leftist friends to drop a dollar in the “Trump was right” jar.

As many search for answers as to how the California wildfires became a disaster that officials find little hope in containing, President-elect Donald Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan in October that a crisis loomed from California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s handling of the water supply.

“In Los Angeles, you can’t get proper amounts of water,” Trump said.

He then told Rogan a story about driving through California farmlands with members of Congress, seeing how bad the land was, and asking, “‘How come all this land is so barren?’ It’s farmland, and it looked terrible,” he recalled.

In January 2025, it seems that Newsom’s administration should have listened.

Ironically, during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, Newsom accused Trump of politicizing this issue via posts on Truth Social.

It looks like Newsom was the one politicizing California’s water supply as he decided in 2020 he’d rather score anti-Trump points by opposing the then-president, rather than listen to him and take practical measures to get water further south.