Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitches

Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.

According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.

In front of more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administration’s decision in January to pause new natural gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.

“You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the Post, citing an unnamed dinner attendee.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
    19·
    7 months ago

    I’m really disappointed in the low quality of super villain. I was told they would have evil lairs on the moon or the ocean floor, not a shabby club in Florida. I was told they would be charismatic visionaries with grandiose ambitions, not a salesman of sneakers and NFTs who just wants to abuse women unchecked.

    • mPony@lemmy.world
      11·
      7 months ago

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      You look at your companions and test the water of their friendship With your toe

      They significantly edge closer to the gold

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      History is short the sun is just a minor star

      The poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar

      Que sera sera is that your new Ferrari car

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      You don’t have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder

      Tears burn our eyes

      Muslim or Christian Mullah or Pope

      Preacher or poet who was it wrote

      Give any one species too much rope

      And they’ll fuck it up