Trees can explode actually 😅 Eucalyptus and Aspen trees are know to explode during bush fires.
They don’t explode unbidden like you might assume given Trump’s comment. He seems to do this a lot; he talks about something real, in a way that demonstrates he’s garbage at communicating anything even remotely technical.
The real solutions is of course tending our forests to ensure there’s not enough combustible material to cause dangerous fires. More resources for the forest service is essential. It makes me wonder if these gaffs are far more effective at directing our attention away from the substance of the problem with Trump
FYI there’s a typo in your Wikipedia link.
I think this means he has seen a video of a dry Christmas tree burning. I have seen parrots that were more articulate.
Fucking pinhead for President.
ah yes, trees. notorious for falling down after 18 months.
You forgot the explosion part
Why do you spend so much on your military if you can just use those trees
As much as I hate to defend this blithering idiot, I believe what he was trying to say is after a tree falls, it dries out and becomes fuel for wildfires.
Edit, source: I’ve worked for several blithering idiots and I’ve developed some skill at translating their gibberish into conherent communication.
And using that to justify increased logging, which is cutting down live trees. It’s still nonsense.
The lack of punctuation doesn’t help. whoever transcribed this this kinda missed that.
Trees fall down. After a short period of time, 18 months, they (the fallen trees) dry out.
It’s just funny the way he can’t get out a coherent thought.
If you ask me trump’s been senile for a long ass time, he just hides it better with energy/gusto.
You can’t make this shit up. 🤦
Maybe you can’t but he did so obviously someone can
True.
Unfit
Understatement!
Is this a real quote? I can never tell
“Also, leaves — when you have years of leaves — dried leaves — on the ground, it just sets it up. It’s really a fuel for a fire. So they have to do something about it.”
And apparently leafs aren’t bio-degradable and they just sit there and pile up until they catch fire.
Sometimes I forget how fucking monumentally stupid he is. He has the mind of a god damn child because he never grew up.
Most kids know that leaves decompose. Don’t give him an out like that, he had every opportunity over his 70+ years to improve as a human and has failed at every turn. If you dehydrated his body and ground him to dust, then reduced that dust to its component elements, you’d probably have to sell them at a discount after disclosing their origin. He is, in my opinion, worth less than the sum of his parts.
I thought it was because someone forgot to rake?
The ever amazing Republican, Teddy Roosevelt created the USFS as a way to create jobs and have sustainable lumber resources. He also wanted to make sure that nature was conserved so he could go use his guns to kill things. Of course he was so badass he fought bears with his hands instead.
That is the kind of Republican we need. Make Republicans Great Again!
Wasn’t that back when republican meant liberal and democrat was conservative? When did they switch?
Right after Teddy actually. Taft and Harding and Hoover began allowing big business to establish itself. Beginning the whole robber baron era and leading to the dust bowl and Great Depression. Eventually, their fiscally conservative policies attracted socially conservative people because of the red scare and the fallout of the world wars.
Fiscal conservative was code word for undo the New Deal. Just like social conservative is code for undo the Civil Rights Act.
Yes.
Trees can explode. Windmills cause cancer. Exercise is bad because the body has a limited supply of energy, like a battery.
A pity that Trump missed his true calling as a scientist.
He’s got a very good brain and a relationship with MIT though.
Trump is not entirely correct, but there is actual fire science he is kind of referencing that is correct. Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. Trees aren’t necessarily always good, and cutting down trees and removing fuel load (fallen limbs, trees, leaves technically but not as big a factor) … removing fuel load is an extremely important part of preventing huge wildfires. There are ecological reasons to remove trees, including fire prevention, and also including prevention of succession (sometimes trees can take over grasslands/shrublands … grasslands are a much rarer and more threatened ecotype than many forests).
You are all missing the point.
Trees are not a “problem”, but rather an untapped resource.
I mean look at them, millions, nah billions of them just sitting there, none of them are generating a penny for our billionaires.
Imagine what our glorious billionaires can do if we allow them to just chop down all those trees? Think of all the beautiful toiler paper for our collective asses, as well as the billion of bibles (including a copy of the constitution) that they can sell to us for the low low price of $65.
And as an added benefit, getting rid of all those trees will also eliminate the problem of forest fires. You can’t have those without forests in the first place.
To be sure, some forests will need to be left alone, specially those close to residential areas, but not for the reasons that you think.
We need those forests to actually burn down, hopefully taking down those houses next to them. Why? Think about it. If all those houses burn down then we can use those trees we chopped down elsewhere to build new houses, a BOOM for the construction billionaires. And also, it means that houses next to those forest that can accidentally burn down will have to have an increase in their insurance premium, we can even make it so that forests close to houses have a private company to fight forest fires, think of all the benefits for billionaires.
Once you start thinking money, it all makes sense
I need this in the style of Trump.
I tried asking ChatGPT to roleplay as Trump and repeat it in it’s own words, however it gave me back the same near-verbatim. I think this proves that the original text wasn’t far off
Listen, folks, you’re totally missing the point here. Trees aren’t a problem; they’re an incredible, untapped resource.
Look at them—millions, no, billions of trees just sitting there, doing nothing. They’re not making a single cent for our amazing billionaires. Imagine the fantastic things our billionaires could do if we let them chop down all those trees. We’d have an endless supply of beautiful toilet paper for everyone and billions of Bibles, plus a copy of the Constitution, all for the fantastic price of $65.
And guess what? By getting rid of all these trees, we’d also solve the problem of forest fires. No trees, no forest fires—so simple.
Now, we’ll keep some forests, especially near homes, but not for the reasons you think. We need those forests to burn down sometimes and take a few houses with them. Why? Because then we can rebuild those homes with the trees we chopped down elsewhere—a huge win for the construction industry. Plus, it means higher insurance premiums for homes near forests, and we can even privatize forest fire services. Think of all the benefits for our billionaires.
When you start thinking about the money, it all makes perfect sense.
I hate that my brain rambling are that close to ChatGPT’s output.
Project 2025 reads like a terrible fan-fictional villain’s manifesto…
As someone not from the US. Keep the memes coming. They’re hilarious. And by that I mean I hope both Trump and Biden make it to the election just for the lulz 😂.
white house to be replaced with large black tower
civil servants will all be based off of Ivanka’s stem cells
the white hand of trump is … trying to get up from the couch
