I love
the first snow of the year as much as the next gal, but whoever was in charge
of the White House Twitter account could only have been one of three things:
mistaken, lying, or hallucinating. That’s because on Sunday, the weather in
D.C. rose to a balmy 70 degrees F. The day before, January 11, was even warmer
— 61 locations across the East Coast broke or tied their record high
temperatures that day. The picture was actually taken about a week earlier,
when a flurry of snow did reach D.C.
It’s
quite possible that whoever manages Trump’s social media prescheduled the tweet
last week without bothering to take a look at the weekend forecast. But it’s
also possible that the Trump administration — which has rolled back
environmental regulations, gutted federal science agencies, propped up a dying
coal industry, and slashed funding for renewable energy — is so deeply in
climate change denial that it made a point of lying about snow falling on the
hottest day of winter. --- Grist
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