American energy expert William Becker summed up the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second presidential term. He believes that the US president has already caused more damage to the country and nature than any of his predecessors in the White House.
This is stated in a column by a journalist for The Hill.
The expert says that in three months, Trump has done more than any president in living memory to dismantle the government, fire civil servants, appoint incompetent people to top government positions, cause economic turmoil, jeopardize American alliances, and undermine the rest of the world's trust in the United States.
“While he pretends to free Americans from government interference in their lives, he is actually using the president’s real or imagined powers to change the behavior of people and institutions far beyond his administration. It is a strategy designed to corner his critics and force public institutions and governments to conform to the hard-line ideologies of the far right. At some point, Congress and the courts may find the courage to rein in Trump’s excesses. For now, Trump is pursuing one particularly destructive strategy, the damage from which will be long-lasting, if not permanent,” Becker writes.
He also notes that Trump is fixated on the energy balance of the last century, consisting of oil, coal, and natural gas. He says that over the past three months, the American leader has skewed the markets in favor of dirty energy.
In addition, it stifled the transition to clean energy and rolled back government programs that help people cope with the damage caused to them by fossil fuels.
"Trump justifies these irrational actions by pretending that climate change is a hoax and that fossil fuels can be clean. Neither is true. He is dismantling programs to combat global warming created by past presidents, rolling back emissions limits, and confiscating funds and programs designed to promote clean energy.
Instead of recognizing the real climate emergency, Trump declared a fictitious energy emergency shortly after taking office to “unleash” fossil fuels and achieve “energy dominance,” even though the U.S. already leads the world in oil and gas production. Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel. Its contribution to America’s energy mix has declined as utilities have switched to cleaner natural gas and renewables. But Trump has issued an executive order to “revive America’s great coal industry,” the expert notes.
At the same time, it suggests that Trump has created the conditions for families to become sicker, poorer, and less safe, while destroying public health and disaster response programs that could help them.
By the way, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Moshe Azman, published a video of a song-appeal to the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, with footage of the consequences of the Russian attack on Kyiv on April 24.