The Washington Postrecently sat down with Trump in the Oval Office for an audience on a all-inclusive range of subjects , admit his administration ’s recent climate variety report .   A   full transcript of the Post ’s interviewcan be found here .

The report wasconvenientlyreleased on the afternoon of Black Friday , which many see as an endeavour to sweep it under the rug while Americans were out hunting for discount idiot box . regrettably , theplan did n’t workand it picked up a surprising amount of public tending . By Monday , Trump had dismissed the report , simply say “ I do n’t trust it ” . So , the Washington Post merely asked Trump what exactly he was doubting about in the report .

“ One of the problems that a wad of people like myself – we have very gamy levels of intelligence , but we ’re not necessarily such believers , ” he answer .

“ You look at our air and our water , and it ’s right on now at a record clean and jerk . But when you look at China and you look at parts of Asia and when you expect at South America , and when you look at many other piazza in this world , include Russia , including – just many other position   – the air is implausibly dirty . And when you ’re talk about an atmosphere , ocean are very small . And it bumble over and it sail over . ”

He continued with this genuinely nonsensical remark :

“ If you go back and if you look at articles , they verbalise about planetary freezing , they tattle about at some point the planets could have freeze to expiry , then it ’s going to die of heat enervation . There is front in the atmosphere . There ’s no question . As to whether or not it ’s gentleman’s gentleman - made and whether or not the event that you ’re talking about are there , I do n’t see it – not nearly like it is . ”

As the conversation impress towards discussing the California wildfires , Trump then cash in one’s chips back to a late favorite power point of his : Raking leaves . Trump antecedently lodged an odd theory that   California ’s wildfire could have been prevented by skim leaves .

This “ theory”has since been totally discreditedby a number of scientist , fire-eater , and forestry experts . Nevertheless , that did n’t kibosh Trump commenting : “ I was learn the firemen , and they ’re raking brush … It ’s on fire , and they ’re raking it , working so hard , and they ’re run down all this poppycock . If that was raked in the beginning , there ’d be nothing to catch on fire . ”

“ It ’s very interesting to see , ” he add .

Yes . Interesting .