Donald Trump wants to build another huge wall, this time to keep out the rising seas threatening to swamp his luxury golf resort in Ireland.
The Republican presidential candidate has called climate change a “con job” and a “hoax.” But in an application filed this month in County Clare, Ireland, the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel cites the threat of global warming in seeking a permit to build a nearly two-mile-long stone wall between it and the Atlantic Ocean. The beach in front of the 18th green is disappearing at a rate of about a yard each year.
Trump’s application, first reported Monday by Politico, cites local regulations pertaining to “rising sea levels and increased storm frequency and wave energy associated with global warming.” An attached environmental impact statement says that almost all the dunes in western Ireland are retreating “due to sea level rise and increased Atlantic storminess.”
Trump campaign spokesman Alan Garten did not respond Monday to messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Trump, who has roiled the immigration debate by proposing to build a massive wall along the Mexican border, has repeatedly taken to Twitter to express skepticism that human activity is causing the world to warm, raising sea levels as the polar ice caps melt. He has also said he would seek to “renegotiate” the global accord to cut climate-warming carbon emissions agreed to by President Barack Obama in December.
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” Trump tweeted in 2012.
“The entire country is FREEZING – we desperately need a heavy dose of global warming, and fast! Ice caps size reaches all time high,” Trump tweeted in 2014.
Environmental groups pounced on the application as evidence of hypocrisy.
“Donald Trump clearly cares more about the fate of his golf courses than the health of the millions of families already affected by the climate crisis,” said Adam Beitman, a spokesman for the Sierra Club.
(AP)
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This guy is just so narcissistic, he needs serious help and therapy before being a competent presidential candidate.
Global warming is a hoax that got started by Al Gore!! “Gore’s wealth went from $700,000 in 2000 to an estimated net worth of $172.5 million by 2015 thanks to his environmentalist activism. Gore and the former chief of Goldman Sachs Asset Management made nearly $218 million in profits between 2008 and 2011 from a carbon trading company they co-founded.
It is well documented about all these global warming fraudsters spending millions on plane rides electricity bills among other things.. And lobbying for Global Warming.. Its a hoax made up by the left including Obama!
No, he believes a business has a duty to maximize profits, so if the taxpayers elect fools and tell them to hand out money to fight a non-problem, a rationale businessman takes the money. If the government offered you money on condition you agreed to keep pookas off the streets of Boro Park, wouldn’t you accept it (okay, there is an issues of geneivas daas when ripping off a fool, but I doubt that applies to goyim) – you get paid to assure them there are no pookas on 13th Avenue.
Trump is uniquely suited to crack down on corporate welfare (such as money spent to subsidize the war on global warming), since he’s so good at exploiting it (of course, would you really hire Bernie Madoff to crack down on Ponzi schemes, or any politician to crack down on waste in government)
It’s called working he system. If that will get him the permits why not? I do t think he believes in it.
When filing an application you write what the ridiculous municipality want to see in order to get the job done. It’s not a religious belief you don’t need to believe what you write. It’s all a game of get it done
More lies from trump, baal gaiveh extraordinaire. אוהב כסף לא ישבע כסף