But, again, ascribing this use of “clean air” to Trump’s linking air quality to climate change is really, really generous. As we’ve noted before, Trump instead conflates “climate change” with “environmentalism” broadly and embraces a distinctly 1970s-era argument for what environmentalism entails. Several months later, he publicly disparaged the fight against climate change (and somehow again looped in the ozone layer). So we end where we begin, with uncertainty that Trump knows what climate change is, what it constitutes and what powers it. Here’s how he continued his line of thought when asked if he thinks about climate change.

Source: Washington Post December 03, 2019 17:38 UTC