‘He’s so crude’: Trump faces backlash as he jokes about global warming, says rising sea level means ‘more beachfront property’

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA: During an interview with 'Fox & Friends', former President Donald Trump expressed what he believes is the most significant existential threat to humanity while minimizing the significance of the looming threat of global warming.

According to Mediaite, the 77-year-old MAGA figurehead remarked in response to a question about illegal immigration, “When you look at all these people, millions of people coming into this country, it’s — I really think, other than nuclear weapons, which I think are the single biggest threat, not global warming, when they say that the seas will rise over the next 400 years, one-eighth of an inch, you know, which means basically have a little more beachfront property. OK. Think of it. The seas are going to rise. Who knows?”

Donald Trump claims nuclear weapons are ‘single biggest threat’ and not global warming

The embattled 2024 presumptive GOP presidential nominee continued, “But this is the big threat. I watched Biden the other night. It’s the greatest existential — he loves that word because it’s a big word and he thinks — you know, he thinks — he knows — he doesn’t even know what the hell the word means. He goes, it’s the greatest existential threat to our country, global warming. In the meantime, you’ve got these maniacs with nuclear weapons that can do damage which I won’t even talk to you about.”

“It’s the greatest. There has never been anything like it. The power of weaponry today. It will be obliteration. And that’s your real threat,” former President Trump added.

“But in terms of our country, a real threat are the people that are coming in, that are being allowed to come in. Who wants to have an open border where millions of people are coming into our country, right?” the ex-commander-in-chief remarked.

“Millions and millions, and not just from South America. They’re coming in from Africa, from the Middle East, from Europe, from all over the world they’re coming in. And they’re coming in from jails, and they’re coming in from mental institutions, insane asylums,” Trump claimed.

“The worst — some of the sickest people, mentally ill people, are being dropped into our country,” he argued. “We’re going to be paying for this for a long time.”

The former POTUS discussed how he would tackle the growing numbers of illegal border crossings into the United States, by saying, “Now, I’m going to do the big deportation. The biggest ever. Eisenhower did the biggest. This will be bigger. But it’s a very tough thing.”

“What they’ve done to our country is unthinkable that they could do this,” he said. “And so many other things. I mean, you go into New York, the kids can’t have Little League games anymore. It sounds so trivial, right?”

Internet trolls Donald Trump for downplaying threat of global warming

Social media users were quick to slam Trump for downplaying the threat posed by global warming.

One X user remarked, "Yes, because rising sea levels means more beaches."

Another user simply said, "Dumbass."

One claimed, "The rich will run and hide in their bunkers. He doesn't have to worry about anything. They've destroyed the planet, and now we're the ones who have to suffer."

One user wrote, "He’s so crude! Nothing funny about coastal flooding!"

Another X user quipped, "Maybe if we offer him a billion dollars, he'll say the truth."

Finally, this user tweeted, "He is America’s id."

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