Trump: Rising Seas Create “More Oceanfront Property”

August 13, 2024 Climate Change, Trump Lies

The Washington Post reports:

There was no shortage of false claims and exaggerations offered by former president Donald Trump during his conversation with Elon Musk on Monday night. Working feverishly, fact-checkers might be able to publish a delineation of all of them shortly before the heat death of the universe.

But there was one claim that seemed as though it deserved its own special place in the spotlight. One claim that, while not a new element of Trump’s repertoire, is such a good encapsulation of his general approach to reality that walking through it seemed as if it might offer readers some useful insights into both Trump and the state of the world.

Musk and Trump were talking about geopolitics when Trump pivoted to discuss existential global dangers — in his fashion. “The biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean’s going to rise one, one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years. The big — and you’ll have more oceanfront property, right?” the former president said.

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