Trump Backpedals on Call to Strip Al Gore’s Nobel Prize… Sort Of

5 by Timothy Hurst on February 17, 2010

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Tells Fox News "I believe strongly in clean energy, in conserving energy, all of that--more than anybody..."

Just two days after he told 500 members of his Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York that Al Gore should be stripped of his Nobel Prize, Donald Trump spoke via telephone with Fox News' Neil Cavuto to clarify his remarks on global warming and Al Gore. When given the chance to clear the air with Gore and even to sound more knowledgeable on the subject, Trump instead dug himself even deeper. (See video below)

Trump began by restating his position on global warming, citing local weather events as reason to disprove global warming trends. "I have friends in Europe, they're freezing, it's so cold, it's never been colder."

Trump then went on showing that he clearly has no grasp of the science behind climate change whatsoever, conflating the problem of the hole in the ozone layer with climate change. "But to think you can't use hairspray in your bathroom because you it's gonna destroy the ozone, I mean, give me a break."

When offered an opportunity to recant his remarks about Gore, Trump waffled for a bit, ultimately falling back on his original position that we shouldn't take any steps to address climate change because it'll put us at a competitive disadvantage.

Fox News' Neil Cavuto then asked, sort of, "You have said, that given the cold weather we've been experiencing, I don't know whether you were kidding or not but Al Gore, maybe the Nobel Committee should rethink that prize for him?"

"Well no, I was just using that as an example. I like Al Gore, he's a nice man, but you [he] got the Nobel Prize for something I don't think he should have gotten the Nobel prize for, and I said that tongue in cheek, I said that sarcastically, and it was picked up as though it were, obviously, you're not taking it back. But certainly, you know, you just have to look at what's happening throughout the world, it's crazy."

Yes, just look at what's happening throughout the world: Average global temperatures in January were the fourth warmest on record.

Crazy indeed, Mr. Trump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnLIJJQWnZU#t=00m25s

http://www.levinovey.com Levi Novey

Ah, the ozone layer. Such a relevant environmental issue these days. And hairspray Mr. Trump? Really, never would have guessed you used it.
Joshua Kelly

Another quote from Donald Trump…”You know they’re all talk”…. No Mr. Trump, YOU’RE all talk. And not even intelligent talk. Just self focused, self absorbed, uneducated talk. Perhaps part of global warming is due in part to the copious amounts of hot air spewing from that hole in your face. My suggestion, plug the hole.

Your environmental strategies are the same as your financial ones; quick, easy, and fast, but in long run completely unsustainable. Hey my business doesn’t work, I declare bankruptcy, I need more energy I’ll turn to coal and oil fuels! Who cares how it works in the long run. I’m rich and happy!

Cudos!
Phil

Gore is a fraud and should be stripped of his Nobel. Its like giving a Nobel to George Lucas for Star Wars…. Pure insanity. Only Gore’s lie threatens us all

Joshua Kelly

Sorry you’re so angry about Gore and Lucas winning the nobel prize phil! If you want I’ll suggest that you should serve on the Nobel nominating committee, no wait, I’ll make the suggestion that YOU should be the whole committee since clearly you have more wisdom and clarity than a whole committee of world respected leaders. Just let me know where to send the letter!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore globalist

I can’t believe Donald Trump would say that. At least he backtracked. Al Gore certainly deserves the Nobel Prize for countering all the naysayers with scientifically backed reasoning. The planet is experiencing a crisis and we need all the rational voices to rise from the din that we can.