Lord, what an ignorant idiot

“The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records,” Trump said in excerpts of an interview with Piers Morgan on the U.K. television network ITV that will be broadcast later on Sunday. Trump didn’t specify the data behind his statement about setting records.

  Bloomberg

I guess not. When you're spouting stupid shit, it's hard to come up with corroborating data.

“The Paris accord, for us, would have been a disaster,” Trump said in excerpts of an interview with Piers Morgan on the U.K. television network ITV that will be broadcast later on Sunday. “Would I go back in? Yeah, I’d go back in. I like, as you know, I like Emmanuel” Macron.

Typical Trump: business decisions on who he personally likes. One of the reasons his businesses all failed. It would have been a disaster, but he likes "Emmanuel", so what the hell.

A note on the Paris Climate Accord. While I am all for it, I'm a bit concerned about its value after having watched a "Dirty Money" episode on Netflix about Volkswagen's fraudulent gizmo that allowed their autos to cheat the emissions test. They weren't putting out just a little pollution over allowances, but hundreds of times. And this episode revealed that other car manufacturers are doing the same thing in Europe where it's almost impossible to regulate.

Apparently, while the EU has set strict limits, each country is allowed to enforce it according to their own desires. Car manufacturers shop for the countries with the most lenient regulations and enforcements, so each country competes with the others to win the factories. In other words, they're polluting like crazy.

That's a really interesting episode. (Hard NOx) Volkswagen didn't just knowingly create the cheat, it promised to fix it and created a deeper cheat instead. The proper response from the US would have been to refuse Volkswagen to sell in this country for a certain number of years. Of course, that's not what happened.

But, I digress.

“There is a cooling, and there’s a heating,” [Trump] said. “I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place.”

No, you fucking idiot, it didn't work too well because idiots like you couldn't understand the term and thought cold temperatures were disproving it.

Trump’s comment was consistent with one he made on Twitter in late December as the eastern U.S. shivered through a brief cold snap. “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!”

Chalk one up for Trump. He's consistently stupid.

In 2014, less than a year before he entered the 2016 presidential race [...] Trump said on Twitter that the “POLAR ICE CAPS are at an all time high, the POLAR BEAR population has never been stronger. Where the hell is global warming.”

Where in god's name does he hear this shit?  Voices in his head?

On ice caps specifically, NOAA, in its annual Arctic Report Card published in December, said the amount of the Arctic Ocean frozen over in the coldest points of winter set a record low in 2017 and is declining faster than at any time in the past 1,500 years.

The cost of natural disasters hit records in the U.S. in 2017, straining the U.S. budget. NOAA tallied 16 major billion-dollar-plus storms, fires and floods in 2017, including Hurricanes Maria and Harvey, which devastated Puerto Rico and Houston, respectively. The price-tag for damage from those weather and climate events was $306 billion.

Where the hell was Trump? Tossing paper towel rolls and getting his picture taken.

Asked if he thought Prime Minister Theresa May was in a good position in the [Brexit] negotiations, he responded: “Would it be the way I negotiate? No. I wouldn’t negotiate it the way it’s being negotiated.”

“I would have had a different attitude,” he went on, “I would have said the European Union is not cracked up to what it’s supposed to be. I would have taken a tougher stand in getting out.”

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Trump said that he would visit the U.K. twice in 2018 with one a full state visit, which involves meeting the queen. “Yeah. I’ll be there. She [May] just invited me. Twice. State and working. One is a State, October.”

What happened to, "if she promises not to let people protest my visit"? He's not going.

We know exactly how he would have "negotiated".  He'd have tweeted nasty comments about the EU and leaders of all the other countries from his room, stuffing his face with the comfort of a cheeseburger and diet Coke.

Meanwhile, in Russia, about which he hasn't uttered a word, protesters are being jailed, along with an opposition candidate for the presidency, who was roughly snatched off the street and subsequently released. Oh, yeah and one oppo candidate was killed.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.