New Shitstain Tack For Closing Weeks Of Campaign: Rebranding As A "Great Environmentalist"

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President Trump is attempting one of the biggest branding overhauls of his career in the waning weeks of the 2020 campaign — trying to run as an environmentalist after spending four years aggressively pushing for expanding the use of oil, gas and coal. Trump, always the self-promoter-in-chief, is seeking to paint himself as the most environmentally friendly president since Teddy Roosevelt in an effort to endear himself to voters in several crucial swing states — even after his administration has sought to roll back dozens of anti-pollution regulations.

“Who would have thought Trump is the great environmentalist?” Trump told a crowd in Florida last month when announcing, in an about-face, that he would ban oil drilling off of southern Atlantic states and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. “And I am. I am. I believe strongly in it.”

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Yet Trump’s critics, many of whom have spent the past four years saying he has one of the worst environmental records of any president in U.S. history, are highly suspicious of the pivot. And any last-minute moves, they say, are too little and too late to sway to his side many voters concerned with these issues. “This is an administration that spent four years bragging about how much fossil fuels they can get into the global economy,” said Jerry Taylor, a former global warming skeptic who now advocates for federal climate action as head of the Niskanen Center. “At the 11th hour, these gestures, after four loud years of that, are extremely unlikely to resonate," he added.

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Despite his recent backpedaling on some environmental issues, however, Trump has been unable to maintain a steady message when it comes to the biggest one of them all — climate change. During the first presidential debate Sept. 29, he showed a fleeting willingness to acknowledge that humans are contributing to the problem “to an extent.” But two weeks earlier, he had shrugged off any links between rising temperatures and natural disasters during a briefing with California officials as the state saw its worst wildfire season on record. “It will start getting cooler," he said, “you just watch.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/15/trump-wants-be-seen-great-environmentalist-that-could-be-tough-sell/

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1. Another gob of shit that won't stick to the wall.