September 23, 2019: Trump Proves Immovably Ignorant on Climate Change

 

9/23/19: Okay. False alarm. We do not have an environmentally aware President Trump. Rather, the only question seems to be, “How dumb is this man?” When it comes to climate change, he proves infallibly ignorant. 

Again.

 

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Trump says he wants clean air and clean water.

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At the U.N. General Assembly today, he sat in for fifteen minutes as world leaders discussed the threat. The topic just didn’t hold his attention. As he exited the session, reporters managed to stop him briefly and ask why he bothered to stop in at the Climate Summit at all. 

First, the basics. The Climate Summit was discussing global climate and how that climate is changing. Also: what should be done by the nations of the world to address rising global temperatures. 

Got it? Climate. We already know that the president is unable to differentiate between weather and climate. It’s as if he can’t tell the difference between a tuna fish sandwich and a tuna.

 

In fact, a U.N. report released this week notes that the period ending on the last day of 2019 is on pace to be the hottest five-year span in recorded history. Trump and his merry MAGA band will hear the initials “U.N.” and snap their minds shut like wolf traps. So we should probably try NASA, instead, which warns that, globally, eighteen of the hottest nineteen years are the last eighteen (2001-2018). And 2019 is on pace to be the nineteenth out of twenty. 

So how did the Climate-Denier-in-Chief respond? 

“I’m a big believer,” he told reporters, “in clean air and clean water, and all countries should get together and do that, and they should do it for themselves. That’s very, very important.” 

Again, the president proves he is immovably ignorant. 

Yes, sir, clean water is nice. Yes, Mr. President, clean air.Great. The cleanliness of water and air have nothing to do with climate change. You might just as sensibly have said, “I like banging porn stars.”

 

If the air is hotter, we have a serious problem, no matter how clean it is. If the air is hotter, water will evaporate more quickly. It won’t matter if the water is clean. More water will remain suspended in hotter air. Hotter water will give greater power to hurricanes. When hurricanes come, the clean water will be dumped out of the clean air in torrents and cities will drown. See: Hurricane Imelda (2019), Hurricane Florence (2018) and Hurricane Harvey (2017), all of which dumped record rainfall.

 

 

 

Finally, President Trump decided to wrap it up by mocking an autistic teenager, Greta Thunberg. 

Thunberg is a 16-year-old climate activist and on Monday issued an impassioned call for action at the U.N. It was the time to fight climate change, she said, past time for hollow words from world leaders – “thoughts and prayers,” as it were, for Planet Earth. Trump could have been a mature 73-year-old leader of a world power and just let it go. 

But he had to be an asshole:

 

 

Thunberg has a different way of speaking. That’s true. But her message resonates with her generation, which will reap the winds Trump and his geriatric fan base are now happy to sow. 

And don’t forget. The President of the United States just wasted his time picking on a Swedish teenager!

January 7, 2020: Republican "Family Values"

 

1/7/20: Tuesday night, the Iranians fire twenty missiles at U.S. military bases in Iraq. It is thought that some carried 1,500 pound warheads. 

Any miscalculation in the next few hours or days could lead to war between the two nations. 

Fortunately, there are no reported U.S. casualties, which leads to another tone-deaf tweet from President Twitter Thumbs: 

All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far! I will be making a statement tomorrow morning.

 

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WITH MISSILES FLYING, another news story gets buried. Imaad Zuberi, who claimed he donated $900,000 to Trump’s inauguration, admits to a series of felonies. 

To be fair, Zuberi raised money for Democrat candidates and causes in the past. But this time may be different. Zuberi funneled foreign money to Trump and his minions. Among other questionable actions, which led to a charge of obstruction of justice, Mr. Zuberi covered up the fact that at least $50,000 “he” donated came from a foreign individual. 

According to CNN, Zuberi deleted emails related to a number of transactions. Those included “a $5.8 million transfer from a foreign national that came in around the time of his [$900,000] political donation.” 

That would be Big Money. 

Big Foreign Money. Big Foreign Money likely intended to enrich individuals associated with Team Trump 2016. 

Often called: bribery. 

Zuberi had already pled guilty to other charges, including income tax evasion, and on those charges alone faces fifteen years in jail. In his latest plea, prosecutors note that Zuberi was desperate enough to offer to pay six witnesses a total of $6,150,000 for false testimony or silence.

 

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WE MIGHT expect Zuberi to start cooperating with investigators. We know that Elliott Broidy, vice president of the Trump Inaugural Committee, is under investigation. On the topic of felons, we know Broidy pled guilty to bribery years ago, in a scheme to game the New York State pension system. 

He was a felon, too, till he agreed to cooperate with the investigation. For that, his conviction was later reduced. 

And for the sheer fun of it, let’s remember that Broidy is famous for paying a Playboy Bunny he says he impregnated a cool $1.6 million to keep her mouth shut about the affair. Even more amusing: That payment was handled through the good offices of Michael Cohen, Donald J. Trump’s personal attorney at the time and a man currently residing in federal prison.

Broidy.

 

Finally, we know the Bunny had an abortion. 

(There were rumors that Broidy took the fall for none other than our current president and the real father, Donald J. Trump.)  

In any case, the Bunny, Shera Bechard, claimed in court that Broidy had unprotected sex with her, despite the fact he had herpes. 

She said Broidy insisted she have the abortion because – you know – Republicans – family values – and abortion should be illegal.

 

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WE ALSO HAVE a Sebastian Gorka sighting and are reminded what a no-class fellow he is. 

On his inaptly-named radio show America First with Sebastian Gorka, the host decides it would be funny to refer to 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as, “Thunder thighs.” 

Yes. A conservative stalwart mocking the physique of a teenage girl. 

Family values.