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Does Donald Trump understand how the ocean works? Once again Monday night, he claimed that rising sea levels would create “more oceanfront property.” (wapo.st)

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

Does Donald Trump understand how the ocean works?

No.

Does Donald Trump understand how ______ works?

Also no.

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depending on the topography of the land, it could in some areas. But its gotta destroy all the existing beachfront properties first, and the new ones aren't going to last very long either.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

Usually when people think of ocean front property they don't think of the ocean being full of debris from the flooded formerly occupied land.

[–] BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

oceans are very wet, from the standpoint of water, they are some of the wettest areas on the planet actually

Donold trump, tomorrow

[–] wth@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

this seems on brand for Trump.

he doesn’t care that a lot of people will lose everything
there’s money to be made selling new beachfront property (who cares if it’s uninsurable or short lived)

He likely hasn’t thought much about it, but heard some talking head on Fox say something stupid and repeating it.

[–] unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

Just the other day we were joking that Trump may not understand the difference between an insane asylum and political asylum, which would go a long way towards explaining why he keep asserting that we're exclusively getting migrants from mental institutions. This ocean thing seems pretty similar and on brand for him.