Donald Trump’s environmental record is a disaster. As the New York Times noted last week, the president has, among other things, “vowed to exit the Paris Agreement on climate change, loosened restrictions on toxic air pollution, rolled back clean water protections and removed climate change from a list of national security threats.”
It was against this backdrop that the Republican made an announcement last week: Trump considers himself “a great environmentalist.” In fact, the president told a Florida audience that he’s “the number one environmental President since Teddy Roosevelt,” adding, “[I]t’s true: number one since Teddy Roosevelt. Who would have thought Trump is the great environmentalist?”
Well, no one would’ve thought that — and no one should think it now. The whole idea is plainly ridiculous.
Indeed, as this NPR report reminded us over the weekend, the idea that Trump and his team have an environmental record to be proud of us literally unbelievable.








