"IT'S GOING TO GET COOLER. YOU JUST WATCH. I DON'T THINK SCIENCE KNOWS, ACTUALLY."

And that was the response by the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, to a plea by the Secretary of the California Natural Resource Agency to work from a base of science, including climate change science, to address forest and wildfire management. 

Anyone who pays attention and has at least half a brain knows that Trump is a climate change denier as well as a science denier. This has been part of his M.O. since taking office and has resulted in major decisions that have made the world a worse place to live (climate, pandemic, etc.).

There is more to this topic that every American needs to understand, however. The issue is not the stupid things Trump says, it is the destructive things his administration does. The most public examples are: pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accords at a critical time in climate action, defunding and then pulling out of the World Health Organization in the middle of a global pandemic, and totally bungling the pandemic in the United States - the "China Hoax" pandemic. But there is more, much, much more.

Trump has placed people in key positions in every federal agency. The main assignment of these people is to deconstruct government in ways that will benefit big business and very wealthy people. In regards to the environment, the Trump administration has rolled back many key environmental regulations (many of which were put in place by the Obama administration). In a recent article, the New York Times lists 100 - and counting - environmental regulations targeted by the Trumpsters, and 68 of these roll-backs have already been completed. The article lists all 100 regulations, and is worth scrolling through. Below is a summary table from the article.

So, yes, we can scoff and laugh at what an ignoranus Donald Trump is, but we need to be really pissed off about what is happening behind his clown characterization performance. This is serious, and the effects will plague us for a long time. 

Trump must be stopped. Every citizen, not just the usual 40+ percent, needs to vote, and every citizen with at least half a brain should understand that another 4 years of Donald Trump could be the end of America as we know it. Seriously. 

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