Trump the Environmentalist

Trump Rejects Looming Environmental Crisis — Again

January 21, 2020 Buck Banks

“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune tellers.”

— “President Trump bragged Tuesday about the American economy and rejected warnings that the world is barreling toward an environmental crisis, a key concern at this year’s World Economic Forum,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

One Dim Bulb

September 4, 2019 Buck Banks

Donald Trump never met an environmental regulation he likes.
He’s rolled back emissions and oil regs without even a fight.
Ever the environmentalist,
He’s added to his dereg list —
Now Trump wants to get rid of energy-saving lights!

Trump Allows Logging in Alaska National Forest

August 28, 2019 Buck Banks

16.7 million acres

“President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago,” the Washington Post reports. “The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it up to potential logging, energy and mining projects. It would undercut a sweeping Clinton administration policy known as the ‘roadless rule’ that has survived a decades-long legal assault.”

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Trump Rejects Looming Environmental Crisis — Again

“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune tellers.”

— “President Trump bragged Tuesday about the American economy and rejected warnings that the world is barreling toward an environmental crisis, a key concern at this year’s World Economic Forum,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

One Dim Bulb

Trump Allows Logging in Alaska National Forest

16.7 million acres

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are entering the Jonestown phase of the Trump cult this summer. It is not going to be pretty.”

– Andrew Sullivan

“I didn’t know that he would be so sensitive. He’s always talking about other people’s avoirdupois, their weight, their pounds. ‘I think he should recognize that his words weigh a ton.”

– House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on May 19, 2020.

“As far as the president is concerned, he’s our president and I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists — especially in his age group and his, shall we say, weight group, what is morbidly obese, they say. So I think it’s not a good idea.”

– Pelosi to Anderson Cooper on CNN, May 18, 2020, responding to Trump’s response, saying Pelosi was a “sick woman” who had “mental problems.”

“It is all working out. It is horrible to go through, but it is working out.”

— President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post.

— Philip Klinkner

— CNN

Numerati

11 Points

Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Donald Trump 50% to 39% in the new Quinnipiac Poll. Democrats favor Biden 88-5%, Republicans support Trump 87-8%, and independents support Biden 47-36%.

42%

A new Gallup poll found that 42% of Americans say the economy is now in a recession, and another 30% say the economy is now in a depression.

100,000

71%

48% to 45%