#Trump to #BigOil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and Iâll Help You Wreck the Planet
âYou wonât read a more important story today,â said one commentator. âTrump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion.â
Jake Johnson
May 09, 2024
"Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a straightforward offer to some of the top fossil fuel executives in the United States during a dinner at his #MarALago club last month, which marked the hottest April on record.
According to new reporting, Trump pledged to swiftly gut climate regulations put in place by the Biden administration if the oil and gas industry raises $1 billion for his 2024 presidential campaign.
The âremarkably blunt and transactional pitch,â reported by The Washington Post, was Trumpâs latest explicit statement of his intention to give the fossil fuel industry free rein to wreck the planet if he wins a second term in power. Executives from #Exxon, #Chevron, #OccidentalPetroleum, and other prominent fossil fuel companies reportedly attended the Mar-a-Lago dinner.
Late last year, Trump said he would be a dictator on the first day of his second term, vowing to use his executive authority to âclose the borderâ and âdrill, drill, drillâ for the fossil fuels that are driving global temperatures to catastrophic extremes and imperiling hopes for a livable future.
The Post reported Thursday that Trump said a $1 billion investment in his run against Democratic President Joe Biden would be a âdealâ for Big Oil âbecause of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him.â
âThe contrast between the two candidates on climate policy could not be more stark,â the Post noted. âBiden has called #GlobalWarming an âexistential threatâ and over the last three years, his administration has finalized 100 new #environmental regulations aimed at cutting #AirPollution and #GreenhouseGas emissions, restricting toxic chemicals, and conserving public lands and waters. In comparison, Trump has called #ClimateChange a âhoax,â and his administration weakened or wiped out more than 125 environmental rules and policies over four years.â
Will Bunch, a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote in response to the Postâs reporting that âyou wonât read a more important story today.â
âTrump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion,â Bunch added. "
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations
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