“Creams and ointments are always better than lotions, things out of jars are always better than things out of a pump bottle.”

DWP Chief Executive Officer Janisse Quiñones said the tanks could not be refilled fast enough and that demand at lower elevations hampered the ability to pump water to tanks at higher elevations.

Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.

But what is fascinating is how much work she seems to have put into pumping out this nonsense.

“All of our pumps were operational,” he said.