You’ve got to be kidding
On Tuesday, I searched for news articles on Earth Day. While scanning the results, one stuck out as odd. When I read, “On Earth Day, We Finally Have a President Who Follows Science,” I assumed that headline must be from 2021, describing how President Biden was working hard to reverse the damage (environmental and otherwise) caused by Donald Trump’s first term.
However, I realized it was just published this week. As you can see here, this farce was written by the Trump White House, and not some impartial media outlet, yet it gives a false sense of authority. It’s gaslighting with projection, flipping the truth to paint Trump as the big savior of the environment and the hero of Earth Day 2025.
Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, now attacks the Biden administration for wasting “billions of taxpayer dollars” on supposed “virtue signaling and ineffective grifts” while slamming the “Green New Scam.” Much of the “article” is spent justifying the tariff war against China because it’s “the most prolific polluter in the world” and misrepresenting his campaign to gut regulations as merely “streamlining” them.
What about the part where the Trump administration wasted no time pulling the United States out of the Paris Agreement on his first day in office? And how about how the Destroyer-in-Chief quietly ended support last month for the United Nations Loss and Damage Fund that helps vulnerable countries with climate disasters?
Trump is the one who is infamously hellbent on slashing funding for environmental research, and he has cancelled government climate studies. Spending Earth Day gaslighting the nation and the world about how we “finally” have a leader who is devoted to science would be laughable if it were not so profoundly alarming.
Ron Leshnower is a lawyer and the author of several books, including President Trump’s Month