Trump Touts His Environmental Record, Calls Himself ‘the Great Environmentalist’
Despite Obama-era climate regulation rollbacks and changes to environmental law, President Donald Trump is adamant he is an advocate for the environment. During a campaign appearance in Jupiter, Fla., on Tuesday, Trump…
Despite Obama-era climate regulation rollbacks and changes to environmental law, President Donald Trump is adamant he is an advocate for the environment.
During a campaign appearance in Jupiter, Fla., on Tuesday, Trump mentioned the Great American Outdoors Act he signed last month.
According to Trump, after he signed the act, lawmakers said to him, “This will make us and make you the number one environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt.”
He replied, “Huh, that sounds good, because I wasn’t going to do it. I figured, you know, let’s not do. But when they said that, there was like a challenge.”
Trump questioned why “does it only have to go back to Teddy Roosevelt” and not “from George Washington, right from the beginning.”
He declared himself “number one since Teddy Roosevelt,” adding “who would’ve thought Trump is the great environmentalist?”
Watch his comments below:
Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to extend a ban on offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico off Florida until 2032, as IJR previously reported.
It would also expand the ban to Florida’s Atlantic coast and the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden weighed in on Trump’s decision.
“Just months ago, Donald Trump