Donald Trump’s pseudoscientific ramblings have never failed to shock or horrify. Now — from the man who suggested injecting disinfectant to cure Covid-19 and suggested that global warming doesn’t exist because cold temperatures do — we have a new contribution to Trump’s book of fact-free claims. In an interview with “Fox & Friends” over the weekend, Trump continued his yearslong habit of downplaying the impact of climate change.
Then we get to the “beachfront property” remark — an ignorant, arrogant and fundamentally cruel quip that truly epitomizes the risks in electing a shoddy real estate mogul-turned-reality TV star as president. To state the obvious, because we can never assume that Trump or his followers know: Rising sea levels do not create new beachfront property. What sea level rise does tend to do, though, is cause harm and devastation.