As always, these issues are more complex and deep than you wish to acknowledge. It's easier to just stay in your echo-bubble and think "Oh Trump thinks he can move a whole river, he's so dumb ha ha ha"

There's an ongoing dispute between California businesses and environmentalists about how much of the river flow is allowed to be siphoned off for industrial and agricultural use. Seems likely that Trump's agenda is more sympathetic to the businesses.

You don't have to like that. But calling it stupid...is stupid.

The jury seems to be out on whether or not the extra water would matter in fighting wild fires. So maybe you can pick on Trump for using the word "fire", but that doesn't seem to be the sole focus of the policy anyway.

Seems to me that mentioning it as a fire fighting/prevention strategy in light of current events is just a slick media manipulation trick.