“We are a nation that is consumed by the Radical left’s Green New Deal, yet everyone knows that the Green New Deal is FAKE, and will lead to our destruction,” wrote disgraced former President Trump on Truth Social on Saturday, amazingly correct as it is true the “Green New Deal,” a term first coined in 2007 by Thomas L Friedman, then appearing in the Green Party’s 2012 platform, and then applied to a sweeping legislative package proposed by House Democrats in 2019 that went nowhere, is indeed for all intent and purposes “FAKE.” Trump really nailed it this time.

Because there is no Green New Deal. It never passed. None of it ever came into law. Every once in a while some dumb piece of shit blames the would-be landmark climate change legislation for this or that going wrong – like a number of involuntarily celibate Trump fans did for the widespread power outages during the February 2021 winter storm in Texas – but incorrectly so as the Green New Deal does not now and never did exist. It is as “FAKE” as their Lord and Savior proclaims.

It’s not clear however if Trump is actually stating that fact or if, in some tautological slip, he believes it is in fact real but the FAKEness he ascribes to it is to imply that there’s some sort of hidden agenda to this ephemeral deal. Claiming it “will lead to our destruction” carries an implication of imminence to this threat, like he’s describing Obamacare. So maybe he just being stupid here.