Trump: Green New Deal 'the most preposterous thing' and 'easy to beat'

[DonViejo]

BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 03/22/19 08:43 AM EDT

President Trump went after the Green New Deal in an interview that aired Friday, calling the proposal championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) “preposterous” while saying it will be “easy to beat.”

“You look at this Green New Deal — it’s the most preposterous thing,” Trump said during an exclusive interview with Fox Business which aired Friday. “Now I don’t want to knock it too much right now because I really hope they keep going forward with it, frankly, because I think it’s going to be very easy to beat.”

The president has mocked the resolution before, comparing it to a "high school term paper that got a low mark."

The White House in a statement on the proposal last month said that Trump “has vowed that America would never be socialist, and this administration will fight this central planning disaster,” and called the plan a “roadmap to destroy the American Economy.”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435263-trump-green-new-deal-is-the-most-preposterous-thing-and-easy-to-beat

[Socal31]

1. In it's current form, he is correct.

AFL-CIO needs to be won over.

[Freethinker65]

2. Drill baby drill

[NewJeffCT]

3. just like trade wars are easy to win?

though, a Green New Deal will be tough with the Trump debt and deficit in front of us

[shanny]

5. fwiw it's dirt cheap compared to the cost of doing nothing

or even half-measures.

[shanny]

4. Great!

Since tRump is a perfect reverse barometer, i.e. wrong about everything, full speed ahead!