In an interview with the Washington Post published online Tuesday, President Trump brushed aside climate change concerns by hailing the state of the environment in the United States.
Asked why he was skeptical of a federal report detailing the significant consequences of climate change, Trump said: “One of the problems that a lot of people like myself — we have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water, and it’s right now at a record clean.”
Just how clean is the air in the United States right now?
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