CLIMATE CHANGE/DEMS/VENEZUELA: “The policies required to implement this [Green New Deal] extreme agenda would mean the death of American prosperity and the end of the American middle class. It would mean, I think, even worse than that. It would destroy our country. I used to say, ‘Would become another Venezuela.’
Same ideology. You would become another Venezuela. Venezuela used to be one of the richest in the world, per capita, and period, one of the richest in the world — among the largest oil reserves. Now they don’t have water, they don’t have medicine, they don’t have food. You got a lot of oil; it doesn’t matter. Doesn’t seem to matter. They don’t have anything. And that can happen to us.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Restoring Energy Dominance in the Permian Basin | Midland, TX” whitehouse.gov, July 29, 2020