Trump, "I'm an environmentalist." Then Trump demonstrates he knows nothing about the environment.

[Botany]

https://www.mediamatters.org/abc/some-media-outlets-parrot-trumps-preposterous-claim-hes-environmentalist

Trump was asked at a press conference whether he still denies the evidence of human-caused climate change and increasing global average temperatures. In response, he insisted, “I’m an environmentalist” and “I want the cleanest water on Earth, I want the cleanest air on Earth, and that’s what we’re doing.”

The Twitter accounts for ABC News Politics, ABC’s Sunday news talk show This Week, and CBS News simply repeated Trump’s claim. The Hill also included Trump’s claim that “I think I know more about the environment than most people” in one tweet, though at least it also mentioned that he skipped the climate change session at the summit of world leaders.

(Air and water pollution are local problems but climate change is a world wide problem. BTW "clean air" doesn't
have excess greenhouse gases such as CO2 & CH4 and clean water in the ocean isn't clean when when it is acidified
by global climate change. For an "environmentalist" Trump is clueless.)

Link to tweet

[elias7]

1. From the article, re: rollback of Obama era regulations

Trump’s claim that he's an environmentalist is nothing more than another one of his more than 12,000 verifiable lies or misleading claims since becoming president. Two months ago, the Trump administration announced it would replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan with weaker regulations that could actually increase air pollution -- both conventional air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions driving climate change have increased since Trump took office. Over the course of his administration so far, Trump has also made it easier for corporations to pollute America’s waters in several ways, most recently by proposing the fast-tracking of new fossil fuel pipelines that could pollute water sources.

Trump’s administration has also employed known climate science deniers, attacked its own climate reports, unilaterally abandoned the Paris climate accord, and has worked to minimize or remove the impacts of climate change from national assessments and statements.

[Botany]

2. Under President Obama for the 1st time instead of studying the problem of Acid Mine Drainage ...

... and we started doing something about the problem and you could really see the improvement
but Trump got rid of those actions. And Trump's actions did not really save any coal jobs.

Acid Mine Drainage

[Hortensis]

3. At least he didn't claim Brazilians should have been raking their forests.

Of course, Trump is incapable of caring about a world on fire except as it benefits or hurts him, and he hasn't thought it was about him.

I turned cable on today to make sure discussion of this was continuing, and now that it's broken open, the safe place in the middle of the pack is full of discussion of Trump's mental problems and how he's "getting worse."

Has this become only a huge problem for the Republican leadership or a huge opportunity? They can't plug in Pence until the trumpsters lose faith. And now that the press have either slipped the leash or been let off it, it seems obvious that they cannot reelect Trump.

[dalton99a]

4. He is also a dog lover

[Botany]

5. And 6'3" and 230 lbs too. Just like Tom Brady.

Everything Trump says is a lie. He is against undocumented immigrants but his
own wife was Slovenian sex worker who entered the U.S. illegally.

[NewJeffCT]

7. amazing that he grew as president

he claimed he was 6'2" for years and suddenly became 6'3"

yet, he's shorter than 6'2" Justin Trudeau in pictures and much shorter than 6'3" Gavin Newsom in other pictures.

[world wide wally]

6. Hie claims that he knows so much because he's had to file environmental impact statements for his

Developments. However, that is filled out by an engineer or environmental expert and he has probably never even read one. He would be incapable of providing the requested information.

[mopinko]

9. some smart journo should dig those up.

i bet they are packed w bullshit, over the objections of the people who prepared them.

[spanone]

8. he's an amazing fucking idiot.

[malaise]

10. Does this ignoramus ever fucking stop?

The Hill also included Trump’s claim that “I think I know more about the environment than most people” in one tweet.

I dare the fucking lunatic to do a TV town hall with Bill Nye and Al Gore. It is time someone in the media calls his bluff on the environment - since you know more come and discuss the environment with someone who actually knows about it.