U.S. has 'bigger problems' than plastic straws - Trump

[DonViejo]

JULY 19, 2019 / 7:17 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With plastic straw bans gaining popularity to protect the environment, President Donald Trump on Friday posed the question: What about other plastic dining items?

“I do think we have bigger problems than plastic straws,” he told reporters on the White House South Lawn prior to leaving for a weekend in New Jersey.

On a 96-degree day, Trump warmed to the subject.

“You know, it’s interesting about plastic straws: So, you have a little straw, but what about the plates, the wrappers, and everything else that are much bigger and they’re made of the same material?” he pondered.

“Everybody focuses on the straws. There’s a lot of other things to focus on,” he added.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Then why is the Trump Campaign hawking non-disposable straws?

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[Botany]

2. Fine Don .... lets get rid of all single use plastics

n/t

[Wounded Bear]

6. Maybe start here...

[Botany]

7. We have an eastern European sex worker who came to America illegally as our first lady.

We have a porno actress playing the roll of 1st lady to a person you can tell she hates.

We have a President, an A.G., members of his party, right wing think tanks, and a hate driven right wing media,
that are fine with our decent into fascism and letting the supportive capacity of ecosystem be degraded to
perilous levels.

And we have 30% of America who are good w/dirty elections, racism, and Fox News' lies because it makes
the "lib-tards" sad. Kill wolf puppies in their dens? Great nothing is sweeter than liberal tears.

Sometimes I think I have fallen asleep and woke in some kind of strange land.

[Voltaire2]

3. He's right. Trump and a fascist Republican Party

are a much bigger problem than plastic straws.

[Botany]

4. Stupid talking (chanting) points for stupid people

Drill Baby Drill

Lock her up

Send 'em back

or Jimmy Carter put up solar panels on the White House and Ronald Reagan took them
down and the stupid people cheered. Can you imagine where we be now if for the past 40
years we had been working on solar?

Pissing of "the lib-tards" makes them happy. In the winter of 2017 I took a little vacation to
Western MD. One day the conditions for x-country skiing were no good so I drove around the
area of MD, WV, and VA and in some of the worst little dog track towns with the shittiest shacks
and or trailers I would see the following, a Trump flag, a NRA sign, and the rebel stars and bars
and sometimes a coal is coming back sign. Trump scratches their racist itches and they like it
that he has told them it is OK to use the word n****r again.

[c-rational]

5. The dumbing down of America. Why do all issues get discussed at the high school level by

this dumpster of a pResident. We people as a group fail to recognize the harm we do as individuals, forgetting their are now billions of us. China now refuses our plastic waste because it is not sufficiently sorted. Also, another inconvenient truth, some plastic containers have a lower carbon footprint than plastic. We need leadership.