Here's Your Morning Stench Of Desperation: Climate Action "Golden Opportunity" For Trump's "Legacy"

[hatrack]

Ed. - I'm wondering if the author is a dentist, because it sure sounds like he's been hitting the nitrous oxide.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration unveiled two executive orders intended to bolster his green credentials. The first signals the president’s support for the One Trillion Trees initiative, creating a council to oversee its federal implementation. The second creates a so-called “water subcabinet” to modernize operations in water infrastructure and ensure universal access to clean drinking water. While small, the two new orders come at a strategic time in this election.

Surprisingly, climate change has staked an important position at the table of presidential issues, with Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden spending more time discussing the matter than during any other presidential debate in history. Yet neither of the recent executive orders mentions climate change.

The numbers don’t lie. Sixty-nine percent of likely voters say that they would have a more favorable view of Trump if he embraced a conservative approach to climate change. That number rises to 73 percent for voters between the ages of 18 and 34, and to an astounding 90 percent for GOP voters aged 18 to 54. Embracing a conservative climate platform is one of the surest ways for Trump to not only boost his personal popularity as a presidential candidate, but also the appeal of the GOP more broadly.

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And this is indeed where the golden opportunity lies for Trump. If he wins in November, he is unconstrained by the prospect of fighting for reelection four years later again and will undoubtedly start thinking about his legacy. If Trump wants to create a genuine legacy, and one that will be carried forward by generations of Republicans, then he must lean into the idea of conservative climate action. After all, nearly three-quarters of Americans would view the president more favorably if he put forward a conservative climate plan. By focusing on American global leadership, infrastructure modernization, natural solutions and energy innovation, the president has the opportunity to shape the environmental debate in a bipartisan way no president has been able to in history. A President Trump that brings Congress together on tackling climate change would not only cement his legacy for generations to come, but also represent a real reckoning of America’s greatness.

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https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/521308-climate-change-trumps-golden-opportunity

[dchill]

1. Ah! Damn! Too late! I already voted!!

Bigly!

[The Magistrate]

2. The Idiot Responsible For This, Ma'am, Needs Naming And Placing

"Christopher Barnard is the national policy director at the American Conservation Coalition (ACC). Follow the organization on Twitter @ACC_National."

[hatrack]

4. Actually, it's "Sir", but hey, couldn't agree more!

[Newest Reality]

3. No. No. No.

That's a ploy as we all know already.

Despite attempts to pivot prior to the election, this is nothing but another ruse.

Four more Trump years would be spent with an abrupt turnabout from that propaganda. His efforts would go mainly towards four and more years as he has already mentioned.

He does not intend to have a "legacy" and could care less about that, in my opinion. He intends to be the Supreme Ruler for life and then hand the throne to his progeny while preserving his regime and dynasty. That's always been job one. He has tried to cement himself into the White House with four years of rallies, malignant rhetoric and propaganda. It's a fact.

The thing is, four more years makes you wonder what would be left of America and what would be ruled over. I see something like Fortress White House, painted black and heavily armed while the rest of the country goes haywire and descends rapidly into an American version of a banana republic outside. Trump's "brown shirts" would yell slogans and slaughter people every day yelling, "It's every man for Trump!" Democracy will become a fond memory for the rest of us.

[2naSalit]

5. Everyone knows he's desperate and will do whatever he...

Imagines will make the losers and suckers think he's got their back or even interested in thinking about them for ten seconds.