Trump’s blithe dismissal of climate science

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In November 2015, in the midst of what was then considered a long-shot campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump released a book called Crippled America. In it, Trump set out his ideas about what was wrong with the US: immigrants, mostly, but also Barack Obama, the often pathetic" media, and the total losers" in Congress.

The book, the 18th in the Trump canon, is typically self-aggrandising, with Trump describing his own brand as one of the world's great icons of quality and excellence".