CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “Well, you know, climate change is a very complex issue. I consider myself to be, in many ways, an environmentalist, believe it or not. When I build buildings, I did the best environmental impact statements…
But to me, it’s clean air and crystal-clean, clear water. And we have now the cleanest air we’ve ever had in our country, meaning, over the last 40 years. I guess, 200 years ago was cleaner, but there was nothing around. Right?”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the Economic Club of New York | New York, NY,” whitehouse.gov, Nov. 12, 2019