Well, Trump kinda did mention it
President Trump takes a direct shot at socialism: "Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country." Sen. Bernie Sanders is seen frowning #SOTU https://t.co/EXZ8FU2DXV pic.twitter.com/WNNYm83eGD
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 6, 2019
That’s because the vast majority of the plans to “address” man-caused climate change revolve around policies that would make the dead Hugo Chavez and current Venezuela president Nicholas Maduro happy. Mao and Stalin, too.
The glaring hole in Trump’s address: Climate change
President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night zigzagged between paeans to unity and sops to his hardcore base. He eulogized World War II soldiers and then wheeled on immigrants and leftist rivals at home. But absent amid the nativist demagoguery and partisan jockeying was any reference to the threat looming above all others: climate change.
That’s no surprise. Trump is an avowed climate skeptic who casts environmentalist efforts as challenges to American sovereignty, not ways to stave off a planet-wide disaster. As much of the United States endured a deep freeze last month, Trump took to Twitter to plead for more “global warming.â€
Yeah, Trump didn’t even mention it directly. But, hey, looks like Vox is with me on the socialism aspect (not really)
Climate change was the subtext of the State of the Union. It should’ve been the headline.
In his Tuesday State of the Union speech, President Trump focused on five main issues: immigration, workers, infrastructure, health care and prescription drugs, and national security.
And he squeezed in a boast about the surge in fossil fuel development in the United States. “We have unleashed a revolution in American energy — the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world,†Trump said. “And now, for the first time in 65 years, we are a net exporter of energy.â€
Nobody expected him to mention the consequence of those fossil fuels, climate change. But if he were truly taking on the biggest challenge and opportunity facing America, climate change would be right up there.
It’s the subtext because of the same gobbeldygook Warmists keep pushing, and because a few Democrats brought some extreme Warmists to the SOTU.
The Environmental Defense Fund, which no longer defends the environment, just push hardcore leftism for ‘climate change’, goes with
Trump Squanders Opportunity to Address Climate Change in State of the Union
“For the third year in a row, President Trump has addressed Congress and failed to mention one of the biggest threats facing us – climate change. It was another squandered opportunity to show American leadership for the clean energy future.
E&E News, which is behind the paywall, takes the same tact. The USA Today Editorial Board is also upset that Trump punted on this “big issue”
Climate change. The latest estimates from scientists are that the world’s nations have roughly 12 years to make significant cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions or cause dramatic, unprecedented and irreversible damage to the planet. Predicted consequences include severe droughts, significant coastal flooding and loss of fresh water in areas dependent on mountainous ice caps. Trump is not merely dawdling but carrying the torch for the climate change deniers and celebrating fossil fuel production.
Yes, those same fossil fuels which allow the USA Today to gather, produce, and distribute the news.
