A host of other Trump decisions, though, do not spring from well-developed or even hastily dashed-off ideologies. AdvertisementMore recently, Trump has taken to claiming that he will reduce the price of prescription drugs by mathematically impossible amounts. To honor Trump’s order, Army Corps officials notified local authorities at around noon that it would be fully opening the floodgates that same evening. It was only because state and local water managers were able to persuade the Army Corps not to release the maximum flow of water that the channels did not flood. In the end, water flowed out of the reservoirs at 2,500 cubic feet per second, rather than the 5,000 the Army Corps had originally planned.
