In July 2016 , back when Trump was just the fat guy with the hair fromThe Apprenticerunning for the US presidency , we print a listof the downright anti - scientific statements that had been tooted from his mouth or , more likely , his Twitter .
Well , it ’s now been two years since Trump won the election and the flow of unscientific folderal has stayed as potent and steady as ever – quite the achievement considering one-half of his original staff have been elbow out and replaced .
So , get those facepalms at the ready , here is the Third Edition of all the science that the 45th US President , Donald J Trump , and his cabinet deny . We will no doubt lend you the Fourth Edition very shortly .
HPV and HIV Are Not The Same
Trump once boasted that sidestep STIs was “ his personal Vietnam ” in aninterview with Howard Stern . However , his cognition of HPV ( human papillomavirus ) is not so sharp .
According to Bill Gates , Donald Trumpdidn’t apprehend the differencebetween HIV and HPV . In Spring 2018 , Gates met with Donald Trump to discuss the possibility of him becoming a science advisor . Although he respectfully declined the offer , one gem did come forth from the encounter : Trump ask Gates if there was a difference between HIV and HPV .
Twice .
Stealth Aircraft Are " Literally " inconspicuous
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a damn impressive spell of machinery , equipped with stealth applied science designed to make the craft less seeable to radio detection and ranging , infrared , and wireless - frequency detection . However , for all its technological genius , it ’s notliterallyinvisible .
" You care the F-35 ? " trump card said at a military briefing in Puerto Rico in November 2017 , according toThe Guardian . " You ca n’t see it . You literally ca n’t see it . It ’s concentrated to fight down a plane you ca n’t see . ”
Cancer the Crab - Causing Lightbulbs
Back in 2012 , Trump tweeted this absolute doozy : " Remember , new ' environment friendly ' lightbulbs can get Crab . Be careful – the idiots who came up with this stuff do n’t care . "
Enough say on that one .
FYI : “ Nuclear Warming ” Is Not A affair
In the Trumpian worldview , ball-shaped heating is the stuff of conspiracy Formosan industrialist and gullible liberal scientists . “ NUCLEAR heating ” , on the other hand , is the poppycock of exemption - loving nationalist and straight - speak man of affairs .
Unfortunately , " nuclear thaw " is n’t actually a thing . Nevertheless , in a sit - down interview with Fox News ’ Sean Hannity in July 2018 , Trump claimed itshould be our self-aggrandising concern .
“ I jazz President Obama said global thawing is our biggest problem and I would say that no , it ’s atomic heating is our biggest problem by a component of about five million . ”
It did n’t seem to be a simple slip of the tongue , either . While campaigning at a town in Indiana in May 2015 , hesaid : “ I consider global thawing is the single biggest problem in our country , but it ’s made of the atomic sort . ”
In all comeliness , it appear that he is touch to the rising geopolitical tension between nuclear - gird states , namely US , Russia , and North Korea . However , we ’re jolly sure this clunky buzzword is going to stick .
Asbestos Would Have Saved The Twin Towers
By the nineties , large parts of theworld bannedor at least restricted the use of asbestos because of , you lie with , the whole undeniable link to Crab and other fatal wellness problem . However , according to Trump , our preoccupation with not killing masses led to the end of our World Trade Center come after the 9/11 affright attack .
“ If we did n’t remove incredibly powerful fervency - retardation asbestos & replace it with rubble that does n’t work , the World Trade Center would never have incinerate down , ” Trumptweetedin October 2012 .
California Wildfires : Make America Rake Again
While Trump might be most at plate in a Manhattan skyscraper , a Florida holiday refuge , or a golf game course , he is on the face of it an expert at forestry management too . On two disjoined function , Trump has made statement that the ruinous wildfires in California were due to sorry management .
This month , while the death toll of the California wildfire was still rise , he tweeted : “ There is no reason for these massive , deadly and dearly-won forest fires in California except that forest direction is so poor . ” He then threatened to cut money from the forestry department if they do n’t “ repair ” the position .
Needless to say , he is wrong . California ’s wildfires are not a symptom of bad management . As many experts ( and Axl Rose)quickly pointed out , a big percentage of the area burning is not a forest , it ’s suburban and built - up area . While the cause ca n’t be boil down to a single reason , it ’s fair to point out that California ’s wet wintertime followed by a long , dry , and baking live summer is act a major role . This type of intense prolonged weather is also a symptom of , you judge it , climate modification .
Trump made a similarly inane remark in August this year , saying the California wildfires are “ made so much bad by the high-risk environmental Torah ” that oversee the firefighters ' water being pump into the Pacific . That is total nonsense , according toAssociated Press Fact Check .
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Trump also said that raking leaf would help California treat their increasingly frequent wildfires .
“ You got ta take care of the floors . You experience the floor of the forest , very significant , ” Trump told reporters speaking from the heavily hit town of Paradise . “ I was with the President of Finland and he said : ‘ We have , much different , we are a forest nation . ’ He call it a forest country . And they spend a lot of time on raking and clean and doing things , and they do n’t have any problem . ”
Not only is this ludicrous advice , but Finland ’s President Sauli Niinistö also says hedoesn’t remember talkingto Trump about run down and forests at all .
clime Change Is Reversible And Not Human - Made , But Also Probably Not happen
Thelandmark IPCC written report , released in October 2018 , saw lead scientist and diplomats digest over 6,000 peer - reviewed scientific studies in the Leslie Townes Hope of clear defining what ’s at stake if climate variety is not speak and what we can do about rise global temperature . The substance was clear : act now or it will be seriously bad news program .
Trump did n’t correspond with them , though .
Speaking on the hot topicof mood modification to CBS News in October , he suppose : “ I cogitate something ’s happen . Something ’s change and it ’ll commute back again . I do n’t think it ’s a hoax , I reckon there ’s probably a difference . But I do n’t know that it ’s manmade . ”
That same month , he also tell apart reporters at theAssociated Pressthat scientist are divide on whether climate alteration is influenced by human activity , saying : " Some say that and some say other than , I entail you have scientist on both sides of it . ”
That is not true either .
" There is no debate AT ALL going on about this within the scientific community , ” Professor Donald Wuebbles , a climate scientist at the University of Illinois , toldAssociated Press Fact Checkin light of those remarks .
To muddy the waters even further , Trump squeeze this old chestnut on 6 March 2025 :
penny : “ smoke Does n’t Kill ”
Vice President Mike Pencewrote an op - edin 2000 that stated : “ Despite the craze from the political class and the media , smoking does n’t vote down . ” He added , “ In fact , 2 out of every three smoking carriage does not die from a smoking - related illness and 9 out of ten smokers do not abbreviate lung cancer . ”
It seems like he was examine to make some wide political peak about how " enceinte administration " should n’t tamper with the freedoms of Americans . Nevertheless , writing the word " smoking does n’t kill " followed by mislead statistics that downplay the risk of tobacco is not a good feeling .
The Ben Carson Bonus Round
Ben Carson – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and former neurosurgeon – believes that ancient Egyptian pyramids werebuilt by the Biblical name Josephto store grain .
He also endorses a strictly Seventh - mean solar day Second Adventist theology and a literal interpretation of the Bible chapter Genesis , meaning he thinks the humankind and all biography was created in six days . astrophysicist and geologists arefairlycertain that is n’t the eccentric . He also has a picture of himself with Jesus hanging in his hall .
