Donald Trump compared the Green New Deal to the special counsel probe on Tuesday, saying at an event in Louisiana that they're both hoaxes devised by Democrats.
Touring a liquefied natural gas export facility that that opened up earlier that day, the president launched into a familiar attack on windmills and Democrats' renewable energy platform.
'The Green New Deal! Everybody go home! You just lost your jobs! The Green New Deal is, that's a hoax like the hoax I just went through. I'm not sure, that might be a bigger one, and mine was pretty big. Mine was unlimited,' he said, going off script.
'Think of it: The Green New Deal, under that deal -- I didn't have this, this isn't down. ... Under that deal, everybody in this room gets fired! All of the thousands of guys and women standing on these buildings get fired. They go home.'
He said the Green New Deal is a 'radical plan' and promised not to let left-wing activists undermine American jobs. He also ripped countries in the European Union for buying gas from Russia and boasted that the U.S. is now energy independent: 'We don't need anybody.'
President Donald Trump said tuesday in Louisiana that the Democrat-supported 'Green New Deal' would be disastrous for energy jobs
The Green New Deal is an ambitious set of policy proposals meant to realign America's economy toward the primary goal of solving climate change; freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is its loudest cheerleader
Trump ripped countries in the European Union for buying oil from Russia and boasted that the U.S. is now energyindependent: 'We don't need anybody'
'We do not believe in socialism, okay? Is that alright to say? I think that's okay. I think so. If we had socialism here, you'd have nothing standing. And if it was standing from previous generations, it would be falling down right now,' he said.
The president said under his leadership, America has a soaring economy and has improved its national security by reducing its dependence of foreign sources of energy.
'You are not only making our nation wealthier, you are making our nation safer,' he told residents of Hackberry. 'We don't need anybody. We don't anybody.'
With European Commissioner for the Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič standing behind him at the remarks, he
