# LA valve Trump speaks of

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [January 23, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-valve-trump-speaks-of/1013291 "2025-01-23T14:52:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-valve-trump-speaks-of/1013291/6 "2025-01-23T15:54:40Z")

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> “You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north, with the snow caps and Canada, and all pouring down,” Trump said just an hour into the press conference. “And they have, essentially, a very large faucet, and you turn the faucet, and it takes one day to turn, and it’s massive … and you turn that, and all of that water goes aimlessly into the Pacific. And if you turned it back, all of that water would come right down here and right into Los Angeles.”

Internet sleuths have found the valve that takes an entire day to turn on or off.  
[![](https://i.imgur.com/LaGNjjs.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/LaGNjjs.png)

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