Donald Trump isn’t exactly what you’d call a policy guy. When asked about his positions on various domestic issues, Trump’s typical maneuver is to spit out a bunch of rambling platitudes and then pivot to talking about something else. It’s this less-than-substantial rhetorical style that occasionally leads to policy proposals like one the candidate recently made during a press conference in Los Angeles .
There, Trump claimed that the way to solve L.A.’s water crisis was to turn on a “very large faucet” in Oregon.
Unfortunately, experts contend that not only does said faucet not exist but building one would be prohibitively expensive and inefficient. In an apparent effort to address the pressing issue of California water shortages, Trump said the following: “You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps and Canada, and all pouring down and they have essentially a very large faucet. You turn the faucet and it takes one day to turn it, and it’s massive, it’s as big as the wall of that building right there behind you.
You turn that, and all of that water aimlessly goes into the Pacific (Ocean), and if they turned it back, all of that water would come right down here and right into Los Angeles,” he said. Amidst his weird, almost poetic rambling, the “very large faucet” Trump seems to have been referring to is the Columbia River. The Columbia runs from a lake in British Columbia, down through Oregon and eventually end.