Connecting the Dots: Climate-Denier-in-Chief Donald Trump is Making Climate Disasters Worse from Start to Finish

Washington, D.C. — From start to finish, Donald Trump is making climate disasters worse. Trump is a climate denier who cozies up to Big Oil billionaires, relying on them to bail out his campaign, while Big Oil fuels the climate crisis, making extreme weather more frequent and deadly. As president, Donald Trump played politics with disaster relief, withholding necessary aid from Americans that he thought didn’t vote for him. Trump’s Project 2025 agenda will gut services that support communities in preparing for and recovering from extreme weather. 

Donald Trump is bought and paid for by Big Oil billionaires fueling the climate crisis: 

• Trump asked Big Oil executives to donate $1 billion to his campaign and promised to deliver their day one wishlist, including $110 billion in tax breaks in his second term.
• Trump is increasingly relying on Big Oil billionaires to finance his campaign and has a history of raising gas prices for the American people to bail out his billionaire donors. 

As President, Donald Trump played politics with disaster relief: 

• Trump refused to give California wildfire aid because he thought that not enough people there voted for him. 
• Trump refused to deliver federal aid to Washington wildfire victims because of his ill will toward Governor Jay Inslee for speaking out against him during the 2020 election cycle. 
• Trump delayed disaster aid to Puerto Rico.  
• Trump denied 99% of aid requested by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper following Hurricane Matthew. 
• Trump threatened to withhold funding to respond to a flooding disaster in Michigan if state officials mailed out absentee ballot applications.
• Trump has a long history of failing to take climate disasters seriously – from throwing paper towels to altering an official map of Hurricane Dorian’s path with a sharpie. 

Donald Trump’s dangerous Big Oil-backed Project 2025 agenda will gut services that Americans rely on during climate disasters: 

• Project 2025 was written by climate deniers as a blueprint for Trump’s second term. 
• Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would privatize the National Weather Service, putting lifesaving extreme weather alerts behind a paywall. 
• Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would decimate FEMA, hindering disaster recovery and increasing costs for communities devastated by climate disasters.  
• Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would gut the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program, which provides essential funding to small businesses and families needing to repair or rebuild following a disaster.