President Trump sat down for an interview with Piers Morgan of “Good Morning Britain” at the conclusion of his trip to London. Here’s a roundup of some of the president’s false and misleading claims during the discussion, one of which he repeated a few hours later in Ireland.
“The United States right now has among the cleanest climates there are, based on all statistics, and it’s even getting better.”
— Interview with Morgan
“We have the cleanest air in the world, in the United States, and it’s gotten better since I’m President. We have the cleanest water; it’s crystal clean.”
— Remarks with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar
Trump withdrew the United States from participation in the Paris accord to combat climate change, and he falsely asserted that the United States had the world’s “cleanest air” and “cleanest climate” and even the “cleanest water.”
View the complete June 6 article by Glenn Kessler on The Washington Post website here.