WashPost Editorial: ‘Trump Is Complicit’ in Hurricane Florence’s Impending Destruction

newsbusters.org ^ | 9/12/2018 | Curtis Houck

[rktman]

Over inside the home of the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” slogan on Wednesday, The Washington Post’s lead editorial argued that President Donald Trump “is complicit” in the destruction being caused by hurricanes, including the forecasted pain set to be inflicted in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina by Hurricane Florence.

The reasons that The Post outlined had to do with the President’s deregulatory agenda on the environment and his refusal to further President Obama’s liberal, environmentalist policy aims.

The editorial first laid out the stakes for those in Florence’s path and then, by paragraph three, laid blame at the feet of the President:

Yet when it comes to extreme weather, Mr. Trump is complicit. He plays down humans’ role in increasing the risks, and he continues to dismantle efforts to address those risks. It is hard to attribute any single weather event to climate change. But there is no reasonable doubt that humans are priming the Earth’s systems to produce disasters.

[Texas resident]

George W. Bush had a hurricane machine. He directed it to go to New Orleans because he hates black people. I guess republican presidents only have access to the hurricane machine. I guess baraq didn’t have access.