'He’s just blatantly lying': Trump called out over 'ecological disaster' blame game
The internet was quick to correct President Donald Trump on Monday after he blasted Maryland's Democratic governor over a sewage spill in the Potomac River, then was mocked for lying about it.
Trump tried to hurl an attack at one of his critics, Gov. Wes Moore, over the incident and claimed via his Truth Social platform that Moore couldn't handle managing the emergency. Wastewater in Maryland and the Potomac Interceptor collapse has been operated by DC Water — not Moore or Democrats, like Trump attempted to claim.
"There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local Democrat Leaders, particularly, Governor Wes Moore, of Maryland," Trump wrote. "A sewer line breach in Maryland has caused millions of gallons of raw sewage to be dumped directly into the Potomac River, a result of incompetent Local and State Management of Essential Waste Management Systems."
On social media, users set the record straight.
"He’s just blatantly lying about this. The pipe is maintained by @dcwater and runs along the Clara Barton Parkway, which is maintained/run by the National Park Service. It has nothing to do with @GovWesMoore," White House Correspondent for The Independent Andrew Feinberg wrote on X.
"Trump is blatantly lying? That's so unlike him," user Dave joked on X.
"Or, Trump just s--- the Potomac rather than his pants...," user Kevin Wiederin wrote on X.
"Every local failure doesn’t have to become a sweeping indictment of an entire party. Sometimes it’s just aging infrastructure and bad timing," singer and songwriter Nikos Unity wrote on X.
"If only Maryland would have agreed to call it the Trump sewage system, they would have been able to get the funding to upgrade it before the disaster," user Edwin Landry wrote on X.
"Didn’t he just post about deregulation on environmental protections? Using FEMA for disaster relief isn’t an indictment of local leadership but it’s the whole reason they exist. Not sure how Dems are defunding FEMA when they have no majority," user Wade Steiner wrote on X.