Trump, recasting a dubious record, declares himself 'the great environmentalist'

[Zorro]

Source: LA Times

President Trump signed a largely symbolic proclamation Tuesday urging Congress to expand a moratorium on oil and gas drilling off America’s southeastern coastline, touting his controversial environmental record in a state in the crosshairs of climate change and electoral politics.

Since taking office, Trump has shredded dozens of environmental protections, dismissed the scientific consensus on climate change and tapped energy lobbyists to lead the agencies entrusted with safeguarding the country’s natural resources, but he dramatically recast his record in an effort to woo environmentally minded voters.

“Number one since Teddy Roosevelt. Who would have thought? Trump is the great environmentalist,” he said before urging Congress to extend a ban on selling new leases along Florida’s Gulf Coast as well as a moratorium along the state’s Atlantic coast and the shorelines of Georgia and South Carolina.

Only Congress has the power to extend the statutory ban on oil leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and lawmakers are unlikely to do so in the eight weeks before the November election.

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-08/trump-recasting-a-dubious-record-declares-himself-the-great-environmentalist

[underpants]

1. And tomorrow it's drawing down troops in Afghanistan

possibly Iraq too.

Next he’s getting a puppy and going to a Mexican restaurant for lunch.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. He is hands down the Greatest Bullshitter in the

History of the Cosmos.

[Hoyt]

3. So now ignorant white wingers will accept Green as long as pushed by racists.

[Gore1FL]

4. He is neither enviro nor a mentalist. nt

[lagomorph777]

18. However, he is mental.

[Grokenstein]

5. The guy who can't tell the difference between windmills and wind turbines

and claimed whichever one he meant causes cancer?

Never an environmentalist, but definitely mental.

[PSPS]

6. Another style book update, I guess. Now it's "recasting a dubious record"

[jeffreyi]

7. What a dick.

Lying sack of excrement.

[dalton99a]

8. He is also a great humanitarian

[Solly Mack]

9. Said it before. I'll say it again. Deranged Walter Mitty.

[PatrickforO]

10. Wow. Well, we all know how to tell if Trump is lying, don't we?

If his mouth is open and he is talking, he is lying.

[JI7]

11. This is about Florida's electoral votes

[johnnyfins]

16. And Mar A Lardo, of course

[Roy Rolling]

12. The Gulf of Mexico Coastline

Fuck Trump. Oil companies have shredded the Louisiana coastline, destroyed it with the Deepwater Horizon spill, and continue to leak from uncapped and leaky wells.

Yeah, the Atlantic coast off of Mar a Lago is a priority.

[tanyev]

13. The Great Pretender.

[raging moderate]

14. ?

(gasp) Please! Stop posting these absurdities for awhile! We all need to catch our breath~!

[SWBTATTReg]

15. the 'great liar' speaks again...

[lagomorph777]

17. There's nothing the least bit "dubious" about Trump's record.

He's straight-up anti-environmentalist in every possible way.