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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/06/05/trump-claims-he-made-the-air-cleaner-just-by-being-president.html
Posted on Wed, Jun 5th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Trump Claims He Made The Air Cleaner Just By Being President
In Ireland, Trump claimed that the US now has the cleanest air and water in the world because he is president
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Trump said, We have the cleanest air in the world in the United States, and its gotten better since Im president. We have the cleanest water. Its crystal clean, and I always say I want crystal clean water and air. I havent heard his comments, but were setting records environmentally.
Link to tweet
The US doesnt have the cleanest air and water in the world
According to the American Lung Associations State Of The Air report for 2019:
The State of the Air 2019 report shows that too many cities across the nation increased the number of days when particle pollution, often called soot, soared to often record-breaking levels. More cities suffered from higher numbers of days when ground-level ozone, also known as smog, reached unhealthy levels. Many cities saw their year-round levels of particle pollution increase as well.
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More than four in 10 Americans, approximately 43.3 percent of the population, live in counties that have monitored unhealthy ozone and/or particle pollution. The number of people exposed to unhealthy air increased to nearly 141.1 million. That represents an increase from the past two reports: higher than the 133.9 million in the 2018 report (covering 2014-2016) and the 125 million in the 2017 report (covering 2013-2015). Close to 20.2 million people, or 6.2 percent, live in 12 counties with unhealthful levels for all three measures.
Trump is lying about the state of US air and water
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More than four in 10 Americans, approximately 43.3 percent of the population, live in counties that have monitored unhealthy ozone and/or particle pollution. The number of people exposed to unhealthy air increased to nearly 141.1 million. That represents an increase from the past two reports: higher than the 133.9 million in the 2018 report (covering 2014-2016) and the 125 million in the 2017 report (covering 2013-2015). Close to 20.2 million people, or 6.2 percent, live in 12 counties with unhealthful levels for all three measures.
Trump is lying about the state of US air and water
Due to Trumps rollback of environmental regulations, the nations air and water are getting dirtier, not cleaner. The progress that has been made has nothing to do with Trump and is attributed to the Clean Air Act, which was passed in 1970.
Trump is trying to deny climate change with an empty claim that everything is great. He believes that his mere presence in the White House has cleaned up the nations air and water.
His bragging would be silly if the policy behind it werent making the American people sicker every day.
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Trump Claims He Made The Air Cleaner Just By Being President (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2019
OP
There he goes again, lying his a$$ off, making $hit up and patting himself on the back. Typical.
SammyWinstonJack
Jun 2019
#4
nocoincidences
(2,218 posts)1. Some days
I feel like one more absurdity and I am going to explode....really.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)2. The jackass is counting on us to become numb to his lies.
He's trying to make us all mentally shut down and go into default mode where we overlook his absurdities - another form of normalization.
MotorCityMan
(1,203 posts)3. Yeah, tell that to Flint, MI...
...you piece of shit.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)4. There he goes again, lying his a$$ off, making $hit up and patting himself on the back. Typical.