President Trump has battled California Gov. Newsom over wildfires, immigration, environmental rules, and vehicle mandates as ...

Wildfires create chaos throughout Los Angeles. Entire communities are set aflame, thousands are under evacuation orders, and city/state leadership is being questioned.

But the governor’s office said no such document existed. “There is no such document as the water restoration declaration – that is pure fiction,” Newsom’s office wrote in a statement.

President Trump directed U.S. government agencies to override California’s water policies as needed — slamming the state’s handling of the Los Angeles region’s wildfires in an executive ...

As President Donald Trump prepares to tour wildfire damage in California, he's zeroing in on one of his frequent targets for criticism: State water policy. Since the fires broke out Jan. 7, Trump ...

In another Truth Social post, Trump blasted Newsom, often calling him "Newscum." "Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed ...

As deadly fires ripped through the Los Angeles-area in January 2025, a rumor surfaced that California Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to sign a water restoration declaration during Donald Trump's first ...

"No water restoration declaration was put before Gov. Newsom," Brent Haddad, a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told ABC News in an email.

Elon Musk shared the post of Donald Trump claiming that California Governor Newsom refused to sign the "water restoration declaration." However, such a declaration never existed Image: X.com ...

In his Jan. 8 post, Trump claimed that Newsom didn’t sign the “water restoration declaration” to “protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt … but didn’t care about the ...