August 28, 2020: President Trump Hates Climate Scientists, Former Advisors, and Relatives

 

8/28/20: The pandemic continues to rattle the economy. Fears grow that a second wave of layoffs may be coming. MGM Resorts plans to lay off 18,000 furloughed workers, a quarter of its U.S. workforce. American Airlines is letting 17,500 workers go. Another 4,000 workers at Booking.com will be cut in September. State and local governments have slashed payroll, eliminating 1.2 million jobs. Moody’s Analytics warns that falling tax receipts and rising costs for unemployment relief may force an even larger, additional round of cuts, as many as 2.8 million.

 

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“If our collective future were a movie, this week would be the trailer.” 

Camilo Mora, climate scientist

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AS AUGUST winds down, we find two storms brewing in the Atlantic, as another year of hotter waters make for ripe conditions for hurricanes. 

As for Trump, he continues to ignore climate change – when we’re lucky – and to denigrate the experts when we’re not. With California going up in smoke, Iowa recovering from freakish 100 mph straight-line winds, and the Gulf Coast smashed, evidence of trouble piles up. As NPR reports: 

Climate scientist Camilo Mora of the University of Hawaii says if our collective future were a movie, this week would be the trailer.

 

“There is not a single ending that is good,” he says. “There’s not going to be a happy ending to this movie.”

 

Welcome to a hotter world, humanity. It’s not going to be any fun.

 

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ALSO TAKING A HIT: Ivanka Trump. And that hit is delivered by her aunt, on her father’s side. The president’s sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, had already been quoted saying her brother – Ivanka’s dad – has absolutely no principles. Now tapes surface in which she says, like father, like daughter. “She’s all about her,” the aunt says of Ivanka. “She’s a mini-Donald, but yet he’s besotted with her.” 

In a previous tape, she said of the president, “He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.” 

The president hits back at his niece, Mary Trump, whose taped conversations with Judge Barry, have ended up in her book, and now in public view. “Unstable,” he calls the author. He takes glee in saying she was “rightfully shunned, scorned and mocked her entire life” by the rest of the family. Because who doesn’t believe a person deserves to be mocked all their life!

Mary Trump, niece of the president, left.

 

While he’s at it, the President of the United States decides to trash his former National Security Advisor, John Bolton – a man he put in that position, and who held the post for seventeen months. 

Now, Trump says, he’s a “dumb warmonger.” And only a complete idiot would hire him for advice.