CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “Talking about forests — clean up your forests; you won’t have forest fires. Clean them up. He blames it on global warming. I said, ‘No, try cleaning the floor of the forest a little bit so you don’t have four feet of leaves and broken trees that have sit there for 25 years.’ ‘Try cleaning the floor of the forest. You won’t have forest fires.’ And I got killed for that. It’s called ‘forest management.’ I got killed for that. And then, about three weeks later, they announced I was right.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the National Association of REALTORS Legislative Meetings and Trade Expo,” whitehouse.gov, May 17, 2019