"It's Like He Drowned Someone, Put On A Whistle And Called Himself A Lifeguard"

[hatrack]

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That effort to rebrand Trump as a champion on environment and conservation has only ramped up as the 2020 election draws closer. But Trump’s record is clear. Much like Zinke’s roundtable comments, the administration’s last-ditch effort to improve the president’s image indicates it’s well aware his legacy is not one of stewardship.

“It’s like he drowned someone, put on a whistle and called himself a lifeguard,” said Kate Kelly, public lands director at the Center for American Progress and a former Interior Department official during the Obama administration. “It’s too late. It’s too late for Trump to be anything other than the most anti-conservation president in history.”

The White House did not respond to a number of HuffPost’s specific questions. In an email statement, spokesperson Judd Deere argued that the Paris climate accord, which Trump last November began the process of pulling the U.S. out of, “shackles economies and has done nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” Judd also claimed―falsely―that the Green New Deal, a progressive set of guiding principles to rein in greenhouse gas emissions and build climate-resilient infrastructure, “would outlaw cows, cars and planes.”

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The greenwashing event also featured some astonishing, if not downright comical, self-deception. In hopes of rewriting history, Trump has apparently convinced himself that gutting two protected national monuments in Utah, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante, was good for his conservation legacy. When you add all of this to what we did in Utah, if you remember that … We did Bears Ears,” he said, proudly referring to cutting the monument boundary by 85% and opening the door for energy and mineral development. “The kind of things we’ve done are really record-setting.” It was indeed record-setting: the largest rollback of federal land protections in U.S.

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/trump-is-trying-to-greenwash-his-appalling-environmental-record-before-the-election/

[liberalla]

1. It's too late to repackage your policies and rebrand yourself now! You should have thought

of this 2 years ago. The only people you will fool now are your brain dead followers - because after all, they ARE fools, and they will believe ANYTHING you say. You're supposed to be appealing to new people... not the same old trumpies you've already got.

[Blue Owl]

2. Just can't believe how many stupid idiots fall for his shtick

It's so transparently pathetic...