Trump Embarrasses Himself By Claiming Rising Seas Create Beachfront Property

[applegrove]

https://www.politicususa.com/2024/06/02/trump-embarrasses-himself-by-claiming-rising-seas-create-beachfront-property.html/amp

Trump Embarrasses Himself By Claiming Rising Seas Create Beachfront Property


"SNIP..............

Trump said:

The single biggest threat, not global warming, when they say that the seas will rise over the next 400 years, one eighth of an inch, you know, which means basically have a little more beachfront property. Okay. Think of it. The seas are going to rise. Who knows? But this is the big threat. I watched Biden the other night.

It’s the greatest existential. He loves that word because it’s a big word. And he thinks, you know, he thinks he knows he doesn’t even know what the hell the word means. He goes, it’s the greatest existential threat to our country. Global warming.

According to a 2022 NASA study, sea levels are projected to rise at least a foot over the next 20-30 years in the US. The rise will be even higher in Southeast and along the Gulf Coast. The country is not going to have more beachfront property. The country will have what is described as catastrophic flooding.

Rising sea levels don’t create beachfront property, and the levels are going to rise much faster than Trump suggested.

..............SNIP"

[Celerity]

1. video

Link to tweet

[Celerity]

3. he looks like dogshit btw, really worn out, like old hotel furniture from a flophouse

[malaise]

15. Bwaaaaaah😂

Good

[PatSeg]

23. Damn, that's really stupid even for Trump

He mocks Biden for using the word "existential", claiming Biden likes big words and doesn't even know what it means. Translation: Trump doesn't know what existential means!

Damn, the man really looks like shit. He becomes a little more deflated every day like a leaky tire.

[0rganism]

2. Well, he's completely wrong, but "embarrassed"?

I don't know if embarrassment is even in the spectrum of feelings he can experience in this lifetime.

[Straw Man]

9. I agree that embarrassment is not in his emotional catalogue.

I think it's more like deep, corrosive, soul-destroying shame, instilled in him by a cold and brutal father, which he then projects outward in a typical narcissistic pattern. That's why his accusations are a clear window into his own suppressed anxieties.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Tangier Island (Chesapeake Bay) must be delighted to hear that

Tangier Island (Chesapeake Bay) must be delighted to hear that. Their island is being eaten away by rising water. Now the island should get bigger according to Trump's theory. He promised them many dollars. I wonder how much they have gotten so far.

Lots of

[keithbvadu2]

5. I'll bet that Biden does not even know what covfefe means.

More

[hatrack]

11. As it turns out, they'll be getting what they voted for . . .

EDIT

The story caught the attention of President Donald Trump after Eskridge also told the reporter that he loved Trump “as much as any family member I got.” About 90 percent of voters on the island supported Trump in 2016 and 2020, and “Trump 2024” flags fly from fishing shanties and greet tour boats as they pull into the docks.

As Eskridge tells it, he was out crabbing when a fellow resident told him the president had called to talk to him. “President of what?” Eskridge said — only to soon hear Trump’s voice on the other end of the line at home. He said Trump told him that he also believed that rising sea level was not a threat to the island, and that the residents had nothing to worry about — Tangier would be around for hundreds of years to come.

The story exploded. Soon Eskridge was on national television onstage at a CNN town hall telling former president Al Gore that he had lived on the island his whole life and the sea level didn’t look any different to him: “If sea level rise is occurring, why am I not seeing signs of it?” The erosion he could see.Gore said a big challenge for scientists was being able to translate the threats of climate change in an understandable way so that people “can see the consequences in their own lives.”

EDIT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/02/tangier-island-virginia-congress-funding/

[keithbvadu2]

43. Yeah! Those who insist that it's just erosion cannot explain why the water also rises in the middle of the island.

I still wonder how much money they actually got from Trump's promise.

[IronLionZion]

38. They have lost population as people moved away

I doubt they find many buyers interested in moving there.

The ones who stay are either stuck for financial reasons or are in MAGA-fueled denial of what they can see with their own eyes.

[oasis]

6. The prison library will give him

an opportunity to get an education.

[Traurigkeit]

24. Never happen. Won't wear glasses and deal with learnig disability.

[IronLionZion]

39. Maybe audiobooks, I don't believe he can read

[duncang]

7. I bet all those

Houses people own already on the brink of going in the ocean won’t appreciate it. I’ve seen when the new beach front lot was last years one street off the ocean. Must be great for them. When mar a lago has water lapping at its doors will he appreciate it? Even just a little change means more flooding. I guess if you want to pay more for less insurance coverage it’s great.

[applegrove]

8. And the water table will rise and mess with septic systems.

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I cringe when I see beachfront bargain homes people are investing in on HGTV.

[Layzeebeaver]

10. It's just another series for HGTV...

"Beachfront Disasters". where "multi-million dollar home" owners are "forced" to vacate their residence because of DEMOCRAT policies.

Please make this a thing on FOX.

[keithbvadu2]

42. DeSantis has a 'plan'.... Don't say 'climate change'.

[DFW]

12. Well, I guess--if you have gills, that is. n/t

[Old Crank]

13. He is right, in a way....

There will be new beah front property. After the existing beach front is underwater.
It will also mean that Florida will become a, much, smaller state.
I hope Georgia has a plan for the refugees...

[jcgoldie]

18. no he is not right in any way

He said "basically you have a little more beachfront property." In addition to being a completely ignorant take on climate change by implying that is the primary concern, that's also precisely wrong geographically speaking. The more sea levels rise, the less beachfront property there is, not more.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

54. The new beach will be...

...where the old beachfront house sat.

[Old Crank]

55. Yes.

My point. And in FL, the nect three houses inland.

[malaise]

14. The Convicted Felon, Smelvis the SF Slobfather

aka Don Poorleone, the Nodfather is a fucking dunce He doesn’t have a fucking clue on the subject. To use Trini French creole speech, he is ‘making as eeef’ (making as if) as in fucking making it up as he goes along.
What is frightening is that he is allowed to get away with this undiluted fuckery. I am so effin sick of this criminal buffoon.

[Goodheart]

16. He's too stupid to know when he's embarrassed himself.

And his "poorly educated" followers think he's done quite the opposite.

[GoodRaisin]

17. He's really, really stupid.

Every now and then he revalidates it for all who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Which, umfortunately, is way too few.

[tanyev]

19. You got everything at Merde a Lago built to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane, Donny?

You got 100% insurance reimbursement on your Florida properties? Good luck with that.

[Passages]

20. I hope we can convince more voters that climate change is our number 1 challenge and hopefully

Center and Center-left Independents will vote for Biden in bigger numbers this November.

The fans of Trump find his comments as not dangerous but merely more self-validating. When you think about the deal Trump offered to oil giants, it doesn't matter if he accepts climate change science or not, he affirmed his presidency to enable them for money.

[JustAnotherGen]

21. He doesn't have the self-awareness

To be embarrassed. He sits on a throne of ignorance and lies.

[Diraven]

22. Well, technically it does create new beachfront

After it submerges all the old beachfront property.

[Shipwack]

26. I thought that too, but I wonder...

After sea levels rise to a great enough extent, I don't think the new waterline would be "beachfront". It'd more likely be "marsh-front", no? Not really conducive to building on or around. Seriously asking.

Granted, barring human interaction, in a few hundred (thousand?) years there might be a beach again. I'm just not sure. Sometimes a biome is a result of unique circumstances. If you clearcut a forest you don't necessarily get the same type of forest back...

[70sEraVet]

25. I never could understand how climate change denial became....

a core principal of Republican beliefs. I think the US is the only country in the world with one of the major political parties having climate change denial as a REQUIRED stance! I'm sure such a political party wouldn't fare well in India right now!

[sop]

28. They'll stop denying when extractive energy interests run out of energy to extract from the ground.

[LAS14]

27. Everytime I read something like this, I...

... mourn the fact that the people that need to hear it will never hear it!!! Millions of people listen only to their favorite feeds on their phones. That don't even KNOW about global warming except a stupid idea concocted by the extremist left.

[Johonny]

29. I long for a reporter that isnt afraid

That will just stop and correct him after every stupid comment.

[global1]

35. I Would Love For A Reporter To Stop TCF In His Tracks And Say "Sir - That's A Lie".....

"You are lying directly to my face and you know it. Why do you continually lie to the American People? Have you no shame?"

Yes - stop the TCF in his tracks and call him on it to his face.

Someone has got to do this and get it on camera.

[Doodley]

30. It doesn't matter how stupid the things that Trump says are, his cult will agree with him.

Democratic administrations need to put aside billions for public information campaigns.

[magicarpet]

31. No no trDUMPie is correct.

Global warming creates brand new beach front property,... 15 miles inland from the original coast.

Only thing is billions and billions of dollars of former beach front property is now under 10 feet of ocean water now.

Drill baby drill,
Burn more dirty coal.
It is God's Will that man take Dominion over the world's resources and extract them to abandon even if it destabilizes and destroys eco-systems causing permanent and irreparable harm.

[hatrack]

32. Now, now - it's not just TSF embarassing himself on this topic!

[Bo Zarts]

33. He is channeling Stormy Daniels ..

" .. 1/8 inch .. !?"

[Aristus]

34. The country guy who sang about oceanfront property in Arizona was joking.

And he concluded that if you bought his ocean-view Tucson spread, he would throw the Golden Gate Bridge in for free.

Guess the joke was too complex for Trump.

[global1]

36. Now If We Can Only Get TCF To Put His Money Where His Mouth Is And.......

get him to buy up all the current shoreline in Florida.

You know how successful he is in his investments. How many bankruptcies has he encountered?

[IronLionZion]

37. Inland areas would become beachfront properties

as current beachfront properties become underwater properties. You can see it happening already in many parts of America including South Florida where that idiot lives.

Russia loves global warming of course. It opens up arctic sea routes for their ships.

[spanone]

40. I doubt he has ever been embarrassed. That takes humility. He has none.

[republianmushroom]

41. Convicted felon trump is and embarrassment.

40 months and counting (includes foot dragging)

[LudwigPastorius]

44. "Trump Embarrasses Himself..."

Impossible.

Like any pathological narcissist, he has no shame.

[Martin68]

45. Well, Trump is actually correct. The problem is, it creates beachfront property downtown.

[thesquanderer]

46. This was kind of the plot of the classic 1978 Supeman movie

Lex Luthor wanted to destroy the west coast of California so that the worthless land further in (which he was buying up) would suddenly become valuable beachfront property.

That's probably where TFG got the idea.

[Don1]

47. So basically this tells me his plan is to invest in Nevada real estate

like Lex Luther.

That's probably also why he wanted to buy Greenland.

[NickB79]

48. The Thwaites Glacier holds back 10 FEET of sea level rise alone

And it's rapidly melting from underneath now.

[poozwah]

49. damn strait

I've got some ocean front property in Arizona
From my front porch, you can see the sea
I've got some ocean front property in Arizona
If you'll buy that, I'll throw the Golden Gate in free

george said it best!

[Emrys]

50. Hmm. He was concerned enough about sea level rise at his Irish golf course at Doonbeg

to want to build a barrier wall to try to stop flooding:

Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course
...
A permit application for the wall, filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and reviewed by POLITICO, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather this century — as a chief justification for building the structure.

The zoning application raises further questions about how the billionaire developer would confront a risk he has publicly minimized but that has been identified as a defining challenge of this era by world leaders, global industry and the American military. His public disavowal of climate science at the same time he moves to secure his own holdings against the effects of climate change also illustrates the conflict between his political rhetoric and the realities of running a business with seaside assets in the 21st century.
...
Trump snatched up the golf resort from a distressed buyer in February 2014, after a winter in which an unusual number of severe storms hit the west coast of Ireland. The businessman immediately took an active hand in advancing and promoting his Irish investment.
...
The statement acknowledges one Irish government study that assumes a steady rate of erosion through 2050, but argues that the study fails to account for the effects of climate change: “If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland. In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring. … As a result, we would expect the rate of dune recession to increase.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436

Irish planners reject Trump golf resort's plan to build wall
Officials say proposed 38,000-tonne sea barrier could damage sand dunes at Doonbeg resort

The climate crisis just became more personal for Donald Trump, after authorities in Ireland rejected an attempt by his Doonbeg golf resort to build a wall to combat rising sea levels.

The planning agency An Bord Pleanála said on Wednesday that the proposed 38,000-tonne rock barrier at Doughmore Bay could damage dunes that straddle the golf course in County Clare, on the Atlantic coast.

Trump International Golf Links Ireland Enterprises Limited, which is owned by the US president’s family, wanted to build barriers to protect fairways from exceptionally heavy storms and rising sea levels – evidence of a changing climate.
...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/irish-planners-reject-donald-trump-golf-resort-plan-build-wall-doonbeg-ireland

[Silent Type]

51. He doesn't have to make sense to his rube fan base. They are afraid of losing their gas guzzling,

loud-assed trucks, etc.

[TeamProg]

52. So, yeah, why would he even try to be credible at this point? nt

[GreenWave]

53. As the ocean rises, old ocean front goes under, new is created.

I live 4 miles from the Atlantic. After time my house will be right near the rising ocean,