Obama Energy Aide Slams Trump as ‘Afraid’ of Own Administration’s Climate Report: It’s ‘Shameful’
The Trump administration released a major report on climate change the day after Thanksgiving that warned of serious environmental and economic consequences if the planet’s warming is not immediately addressed.
Jake Levine, a former energy and climate aide to President Barack Obama, appeared on MSNBC and criticized President Donald Trump for attempting to bury the report on Black Friday.
“I think President Trump is obviously afraid of what administration is reporting,” Levine said. “It’s contrary to his agenda, it’s contrary to the interests that support this president.”
He continued: “It’s really, frankly, quite shameful for a president who just came out to California and visited the devastation in Paradise, California, in Malibu, where towns have literally been just wiped off the map as a result of the extreme weather we’re seeing from climate change. This is, unfortunately, par for the course for this president that he would try to bury this news and deny it.
The new climate report, according to the Washington Post:
The federal government on Friday released a long-awaited report with an unmistakable message: The effects of climate change, including deadly wildfires, increasingly debilitating hurricanes and heat waves, are already battering the United States, and the danger of more such catastrophes is worsening.
Trump, who has previously dismissed climate change as a “hoax,” just this week mocked the idea that the planet is warming:
Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS – Whatever happened to Global Warming?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2018
Watch above, via MSNBC.
