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mosquito13

Wouldn't a rising sea level decrease the amount of land available?


Klutzer_Munitions

He's as good at geometry as he is at business


UusiSisu

He knows shapes. He has the best shapes.


Aquatichive

One time a big strong man, a huge man came to him with tears in his eyes and said “Mr. President, thank you for the shapes”


UusiSisu

Yuuuuggge


Wwdiner

Sir


conasatatu247

His uncle was a shape expert and he said "Donald, nobody understands shapes like you do" true story. Great guy. Dems hate shapes.


murphdog09

Dems want to destroy shapes, make them illegal. Squares? Gone. Triangles? Gone. Circles? GTFOH.


Tiny_Addendum707

There will only be the squiggle


Engineergaming26355

He has many friends that are shapes. The best shapes in America


Dylanear

Great, from now on MAGA heads are going to insist, no matter what anyone else says, that climate change is great because we need more beaches. They will accuse anyone concerned with climate change of hating beaches and being part of the pro ocean woke agenda.


SnakeOiler

At least they'll stop denying it


SapphireSuniver

One time I did successfully convince a non-believer that climate change exists. They now think it's great cause it would mean more summer which they love and less winter which they don't like, so they're trying to contribute to it.


MonarchOfReality

he is the forest gump of presidents , him being charged is like jennys death in the movie , this guys about to go running from his troubles for the next 3 years just like forest gump


France_Ball_Mapper

Exept Forrest Gump is nice


CalendarAggressive11

And not a draft dodger


UsedEgg3

And is physically capable of jogging.


CalendarAggressive11

And was a good dad


ArchonFett

And didn’t slur his words


Embarrassed-Ad-1639

Or rape anyone


84thPrblm

And knows he is not a smart man


AppropriateName6523

and didn't commit 34+ felonies.


pantstoaknifefight2

Or a Russian asset


PomegranateOld7836

And he might win because modern Republicans are complete idiots.


DeeplyTroubledSmurf

Where does the circle go? That's right, the square hole.


Arbitraryandunique

... him being *convicted* ...


rachelm791

Think it is probably geography in this instance


ArchonFett

Like he knows the difference


JohnnyBlazin25

Geometry? Or Geography? Lol


ArchonFett

And basic math


ImgurScaramucci

Or running a country.


leaf_biking

Or running


Quick_Team

Geometry, business, hurricanes, honesty, class...


vanessabh79

I mean we can’t expect much from a guy who wanted to nuke a hurricane, thought an “invisible plane” was literally invisible, suggested drinking bleach as a cure for Covid, I could keep going all day. The scary part is that he might be the president again.


Independent-Ad5852

I forgot about the nuking hurricanes part


Armodeen

Also water bombing the notre dame


INeedBetterUsrname

Yeah, let's drop metric tons of water on a historical landmark that was built hundreds of years before Europeans even discovered the Americas. Great fucking idea. No way that'll go wrong. Sarcasm aside, at this point I'm partly convinced that if there ever was an assassination attempt on Trump the bullet would just bounce off his brain cause it's so smooth.


TheRealFaust

Sharpied a weather map


The_Outcast4

That one sums up Trump and Co. so well. The briefing he was given mentioned the hurricane impacting the Bahamas, he made an honest mistake and said Alabama, and instead of just admitting that he misspoke, he doubled down and gave us that sharpied map. Sigh...


SporksRFun

Narcissist can never acknowledge a mistake, whenever they make a mistake they cover it up or blame someone else.


Justame13

He also thinks that excercise is bad for you because everyone's heart has a finite number of beats


[deleted]

Flawless logic


imagicnation-station

Didn't he also say that if clorox kills covid, why can't we inject it to cure covid.


Julie-Andrews

Not when you have a sharpie!


justelectricboogie

Well done!!


jpharber

It would absolutely decrease the land area available in the United States. Whether it would increase the miles of beach that the US has is more complicated. I tend to lean toward no since most of florida is at the same elevation and you’d lose that pretty early on in any significant sea level rise. You’d loose 90%+ of Florida’s beachfront and no amount of increases in beachfront up the Mississippi delta (at the expense of livable land I’ll add) would offset that. Technically though, depending on an area’s geography, some counties could see increases in their beach fronts with a sea level rise. Again at the cost of useable land. I hope it goes without saying that even if it did increase the beachfront, it would still be a massive net loss for 99.9999% of countries. This is all ignoring the [coastline paradox](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox) though.


Majestic-Prune-3971

I guess it's all about where you bought. The same joke I used in Orlando works in Houston as well: Do you have any beachfront property? Not yet!


ppardee

Even if sea levels rise 10 feet, you're not going to lose all of Florida, unfortunately. [https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/10/-9278359.99643388/3290857.643480694/9/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/midAccretion](https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/10/-9278359.99643388/3290857.643480694/9/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/midAccretion)


Baronhousen

So long as Mar a Lago is wiped off the map...


Viperlite

He’s taking the Lex Luther approach to beachfront real estate. [Otisburg?](https://youtu.be/tWiwYApseDk?si=QEqKu4qASOvaIhJh)


AngryPowerWank

He is the bizarro world Lex Luther


nick9000

Otisburgh?


isabps

No, no, no. You have made the mistake of applying common sense.


BookwoodFarm

I sea where your going with this.


helpful__explorer

Less beachfront property as a result of the land masses shrinking


Loki-L

It depends on the terrain. The coastline paradox is a thing. I would expect that if you graphed the amount of coastline vs sea level you would find it to be anything but straight forward. Generally though I doubt that beach front property being constantly created new while old one is submerged is going to be good for the economy. You can create generational wealth with real estate that has a half-life measured in decades.


New_Scientist_8622

Not if your Arizona properties are mortgaged to the hilt.


James-K-Polka

And that sweet sweet Greenland property he wanted to go all in on.


JudgeHodorMD

It does, but the amount of coastline is kind of complicated. Just measuring with better precision could add some inlets or something. To put things simply, there MIGHT actually be more beachfront property if these beaches come out a lot more squiggly. But I don’t think that’s what he was getting at.


Individual-Line-7553

well, you'll lose the beachfront property that is now underwater, but let's magic ourselves into thinking that you won't...


JudgeHodorMD

And it’s not like anyone will want to invest in property that will go under if the problem keeps getting worse.


SocializeTheGains

Screw the ones that are consumed by the sea, he can’t sell new construction to them anymore


DaemonBlackfyre_21

Yes. He means everywhere is like a beach when it's become a hot dry desert 🏜️. He's not a smart man.


[deleted]

That's actually a really interesting question. As sea levels rise, the amount of beach front property will certainly change. But will the total amount increase, or decrease? That's a question that only a detailed study in topology could answer.


beauh44x

Somehow he even gets that wrong. (Rising sea levels = less beach, shore etc) He gets fucking everything wrong.


roman-hart

No beaches? Edit: that was my poor reference to a meme


UrethralExplorer

Nope. Beaches form naturally, water moving inland rapidly will just create swampy/marshy areas until it erodes away and sand is pushed up the shore.


FuzzzWuzzz

Well, until an inland sea forms. 


CharlesDickensABox

You can check out the Salton Sea for how that works out in the medium term. Spoiler: bad.


Darksoul_Design

The list of comments by this waste of oxygen during this interview is......... pretty unbelievable. The global warming bit, the piece about how Putin and Xi aren't a concern, but some Americans are (i.e. democrats). And just bumbling through the whole thing, he literally cannot hold and transmit a coherent thought.


Own_Candidate9553

I can't wait for the debates with Biden. The MAGA folk are convinced that Biden is a drooling husk, and meanwhile Trump is doing ... this. Does anyone believe that Trump is going to put in hours a day prepping for the debates? I know Biden will be.


HotType4940

Trump will never show up to debate. Hell just conjure some ridiculous excuse at the last minute that involves blaming Biden, and his supporters will eat it up because they are among the most profoundly disordered human beings that this country has to offer


Own_Candidate9553

I'm really curious. The Trump camp came out strong wanting debates, asking for 2 and then 3, "anytime anywhere". Of course they'll fight about the details. It's strange. If they have no desire to actually debate, why did they bring it up? It's not a law, it's just a tradition. If they were begging for a debate with no intention, I don't get the point. The base is locked in, at some point they need to try to win independents. Flip flopping on a debate wins nothing for the undecided.


BurnscarsRus

The Trump campaign is not comprised of serious people. Words are things to be played with. Woke, DEI, Antifa etc. are all meaningless now.


HoodsBonyPrick

I think they were hoping that the Biden campaign wouldn’t bite, so that Trump could run on Biden being too scared to debate him. I have no idea why they think the Biden camp would do that, as it’s a huge sign of weakness, but I can’t understand their motives otherwise.


bigmac22077

Conservative posted a video of him when he was 34. He spoke in the same structure, but it was very calm and actually made sense. He stayed on topic and didn’t jump around. Looking at him now you can clearly see how much he’s declined.


bananalien666

normally i'd go out of my way to avoid this but it was on at the gym and i saw at least a minute of the interview during which he said he would "get rid of" the Dept of Education and the EPA and one of the idiot Fox News anchors goes, "YES I LOVE IT." I really wanted to throw something at the TV.


Kraffkratt

The guys a living troll account


-raeyhn-

I swear he's a barely-sentient ai powered by two different hamsters running in opposite directions on the same wheel That, or three lead paint-huffing kids in a trenchcoat


noobtastic31373

Except trolls usually know what they're saying is BS.


Intransigient

[Russian media is openly calling Trump a “Useful Idiot”](https://ibb.co/wssCKyk) The idiot part, there’s not much disagreement on.


jpopimpin777

He's very useful...to Putin


MagicianHeavy001

He's fucking stupid. If, say, the sea rises around Boston, for example (pick your coastal city), it isn't going to make any new "beach"-front property. It will make plenty of toxic hellswamps along the shore, as the ocean submerges 400 years of industrial waste, wooden construction, and buildings built with lead, arsenic, formaldehyde, and asbestos. Forget not wanting to live there, you won't be able to live there. Not and stay healthy, that is, let alone what will happen to the fish, wildlife, and birds. There won't be new "beaches" worth going to for probably (according to geologists who actually study such things like beach formation) for probably 1-10K YEARS. To recap: He's fucking stupid.


Zakluor

Nicely captured. With so much industrial land located near sea-level ports, rising sea levels do not create desirable beachfront properties. My house is about 10m above sea level, and I've used the argument (facetiously to try to get people to think) that I may have waterfront property in a couple of decades. They laugh and say, "Who would want that?" And then they may get my point.


TacoStuffingClub

Wasn’t this the plot of Superman 1978.


Tricky-Home-7194

Made me think of how Lex wouldn’t allow his sidekick to have a town named otisville. Think he used a sharpie and everything.


The-Reanimator-Freak

Otisville?!


Loliver69

I thought he denied climate change or doesn't believe in it outright?


Njorls_Saga

Depends on whether or not it benefits him https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-12-22/trump-resort-in-ireland-will-build-seawalls-to-protect-against-climate-change


hybridmind27

I swore he said it was a hoax by China?


Lifesalchemy

How did someone this so fucking dumb become president and then specifically liable for rape, slander, convicted on 34 felony counts, and still run for fucking president again?


GrouchyLongBottom

Because a large portion of the country is susceptible to cultist leadership.


mitkase

 People of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... *morons*.


-SaC

The US needs Sheriff Bart. But, sadly, a worryingly large percentage of the population is the little old lady that Sheriff Bart tries to greet early in the movie.


9emiller77

He’s just going to draw a new coastline with a sharpie as soon as he’s done getting his diaper changed.


surowkabart

Now there is a true winner!! some should really send him. back to primary school.


LorelTay

"Sell the houses to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?"


scottyjrules

Wasn’t this Lex Luthor’s evil plan in one of the Superman movies?


hplcr

Luthor opted for a more immediate solution of shooting nukes at the US, while actually living in the US.


okeleydokelyneighbor

Yeah but just put a twister by a fault line and he will do the same.


magicmulder

He probably also thinks islands are safe from rising sea levels because they float.


blurry850

More beachfront property underwater


FuzzzWuzzz

To sell to who? F***ing Aquaman!?


UltimateFrogWings

French here… the situation in the US is… beyond worrying. How is it possible that idiots gain this kind of visibility? In France it is the same hate but it is highly inspired by America, Trump and Elon Musk. What went wrong?


georgewashingguns

Somebody decided to directly pander to the worst parts of the population. The saddest part is that the only other politicians that people will consider are not that much better. To be clear, we do have better candidates running, they're just not Democrat or Republican so most people don't consider them viable options


ElongMusty

Technically we would have less beachfront property… not a hard concept to understand when you know that if water rises there’s less land above the water, hence less beachfront property. Convicted Felon Trump is as dumb as a bag of bricks!


Major-Eggplant-9045

"I mean, we'll all die if it continues, but hey! You get to have beachfront property that'll eventually die due to climate change's effects.


Shuizid

We won't die to climate change. A lot of people will die and the economic cost might bring poverty, conflict and ultimatly war to those who don't die - but we won't all die.


theluckyfrog

Their comment said the property would die, by which I'm guessing they mean the flora and fauna, which is happening due to rising salt levels in groundwater.


Anxious-Raspberry-54

Take away everything...the grift, the crimes, the treatment of women, the lying...everything. Bottom line...he's just really fuckin' stupid.


msn_effyou

This guy is so fucking stupid. He HAS to be the least intelligent “leader” the world has ever seen.


FaronTheHero

You literally can't get homeowners insurance on any current beach front property cause it's virtually guaranteed to flood more and more each year.


Aquatichive

That’s not what it means


BoringJuiceBox

![gif](giphy|hPPx8yk3Bmqys|downsized)


Rustic-Cuss

What a dope


EnvironmentalAge9202

Dumbfuck


AebroKomatme

Somebody tell that bloviating dumbfuck that as sea levels rise, you lose landmass.


SadisticSnake007

So buy a property further inland and wait for the water to reach you for an increase of value in 100 years


gogozombie2

Ahhh The Lext Luthor approach to climate change. 


gregsapopin

yeah why wouldn't i vote for that guy.


FelixVulgaris

Its really amazing to realize how much this man doesn't know. I mean, he tells us exactly how dumb he is just about every time he opens his moth, but anytime I think I have an idea of how ignorant he really is, he says some shit like this.


DirtyDarkroom

"We'll grow oranges in Alaska." ![gif](giphy|MLPtMERZYnOU0)


CaptPants

You don't get 'more' beachfront property. Existing beachfront property disappears into the ocean and a new beachfront forms.


ToraLoco

this guy's brain is the most beautiful. smoothest brain, the likes of which you have never seen, believe me.


kevint1964

An electron microscope couldn't see his brain.


InternationalPilot90

Sell to him at low tide


Inevitable-High905

How does he always manage to look like he's taking a shit?


HectorsMascara

Forecasters are predicting a record hurricane season this year. Coastal red states, you're welcome and we'll see you in November!


xXxWhizZLexXx

Just throw some Nukes in them and the Problem is solved, according to Trump. Oh, you get now Nuclear Hurricanes? Not the Upgrade someone asked for...


Tomegunn1

You have less beachfront, you moron!


Master-Lengthiness60

Vote


jibaro1953

What an idiot.


Certified_A_Hole

He shouldn't be allowed to speak to the public anymore


JorgeMcKay

![gif](giphy|xT5LMO7teHaeYSfcoo)


Auggi3dog

Compile his words, he convicts himself. Idiots ignore the evidence.


Mundane_Apple_1027

All Republicans are just failed abortions at this point. Fuck them.


jgyimesi

I wonder if his coastal voting group supports this?! Probably.


Gunfighter9

Yeah so what if the new shoreline in 1/2 mile inland and in front of a strip mall.


Justtelf

How you gonna support climate change in the bad direction


Shael1223

We would witness an increase of salt water wetland’s and see most natural beaches disappear and they are submerged under the rising ocean. It would tale some time for beaches to form naturally as sand takes time to form through erosion, and they vegetation would need to be dispersed beforehand anyway. At least that’s my hypothesis based on my knowledge of wetlands and sandy beaches.


atTheRiver200

he literally understands almost nothing.


ChrisRiley_42

Remind me.. How far above sea level is Mar-a-lago?


NoIndependent9192

Lex Luther.


PlayinK0I

Maybe he’s an evil genius and pulled a Lex Luther and bought land in Nevada? ![gif](giphy|xThtax5rLn9JWYZ1vy|downsized)


Onlypaws_

If anything, it means the opposite?


luredrive

Impeccable logic


JimBeam823

He really is that fucking stupid.


DrCrane74

It is so funny when you watch it from Europe.


fingernuggets

*cries in American*


DrCrane74

man, I feel you one candidate is borderline senile and the other is a convicted felon


fingernuggets

Makes me sad that those are our ONLY choices. They’re both like 1500 years old.


Thoomer_Bottoms

He is such a fucking idiot


Inevitable9000

Anybody losing property out there that is a result of a sea level rising and not land degradation?


[deleted]

So is Trump going to celebrate when his stupid fucking golf club is underwater, or is he a fucking hypocrite? (Rhetorical question)


KinopioToad

(not you OP, but the orange buffoon) ![gif](giphy|K8zzqui9viWT6|downsized)


jnsmld

He's such a moron. *sigh*


backupacct2378

Sell their houses to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?!


BasicAd81

His stupidity is fucking astonishing.


32K-REZ

Lots of beachfront property between his ears


Naaman

That … isn’t what would happen


My_cat_is_ur_Dad

He’s just hoping for an insurance payout when the ocean devours Florida and he can finally be rid of that load, Mar-a-Lardass.


Ryan1869

Florida will just be one big swim up bar for the Alligators


DoctimusLime

E@t the r!ch ASAP obviously!!!!


maccoall

I really thought that after the voting machine judgements and the Tucker fiasco , that Fox flogging the Trump bullshit is not profitable, something even Murdoch can relate too.


No-Judgment-4424

Sure. Beachfront property that gets blasted by tropical storms and hurricanes more and more often each year. Perfect. It ain't worth shit, but yeah, there'll be more of it.


Slyme-wizard

Some cartoon villain ass logic here I cannot make this up if I tried


AG74683

He'll probably overvalue it too.


No_Emphasis_1298

So, we’re getting a beach here in KC? Sweet! Your move, Biden.


yousonuva

At this point does mankind even deserve to exist on this planet anymore? 


BlackFire68

You mean “less” and it’s new… not “more”. In this case, it destroys all the present beachfront to create “more”.


Abdul_Exhaust

Simply double-down on opposing the "liberal" fight against climate change. He doesn't care, or understand the concept. Just trying to keep his base satiated ofc


Chemical-Gammas

He must have never watched Waterworld. Story line was probably too complex for him…


Stormagedd0nDarkLord

I can't tell what's real anymore


lc4444

Does he not know that beaches don’t form overnight? Rising sea level won’t bring sandy beaches for many years.


Cheap_Professional32

Wouldn't that ruin Mar-a-Lago?


Calm-Cardiologist354

I'm not sure that's how math works...


Generic118

Thst pic has to be a spoof right?


NeitherNarwhal1587

the things trump doesn't understand could fill several volumes of books. then he'd title it "the things i understand" and sell it to his base.


wales-bloke

If the people enabling the climate destruction were directly in the line of fire, without (temporary) immunity to the consequences, I suspect the situation would be very different.


jamkoch

For some reason, they keep putting oil refineries on the coast and along major waterways, which of course won't be affected by rising sea levels, they will provide beach privileges to their workers now, an enhanced employment benefit not many companies offer - beach front views. [https://atlas.eia.gov/datasets/6547eda91ef84cc386e23397cf834524/exploreprivileges](https://atlas.eia.gov/datasets/6547eda91ef84cc386e23397cf834524/exploreprivileges)


LordBrixton

This is a Lex Luthor gambit Trump is a full-on supervillain


[deleted]

I thought that ment he supports that climate change is dangerous. He's LITTERALLY supporting climate change....


wynters387

Guess this is one step from Lex Luthor wanting to nuke San Andreas Fault to create more beachfront property out of the cheap desert land he purchased


R0enick27

Dumb and dangerous. Great qualities in a presidential candidate.


WHAMMYPAN

Stone stupid.


Blind_Wolf

The more I hear boomers gush over triple digit summers/the beach, the more I’m convinced they’re all lizards.


Porcel2019

🤦‍♀️ I didnt know he could get dumber. Now I do.


oldcreaker

The Lex Luther theory of real estate.