The Trump administration announced it is cutting nearly $4 million in federal funding for climate change research at Princeton University, saying that the work promoted “exaggerated and implausible climate threats” and increased “climate anxiety” among young Americans.
To be fair everything is implausible to Donald Trump.
Princeton has a substantial endowment. They can keep the program going without federal support & they should really consider that.
You do this when you know you’re going to die and don’t care who lives once you’re gone.
They're singling out Princeton because they are not buckling to Trump's other demands? (or am I behind with that news)
Princeton had been strong
There's what they say, and then, there's what IS
This cult is 50 years in the making. Anti science, anti women, anti POC. Pure trash.
There needs to be anxiety among all Americans since the impacts of climate change are real, happening, and only going to get worse...especially if we don't prepare for it. And, how do we prepare for it, if we don't research what's happening? Head...meet sand.
Next they're gonna start pushing creationism and claim evolution is a hoax. America's strengths in science and research are being flushed away.
Start? They've been pushing this for decades.
But I thought caring about people’s anxieties was woke? Oh wait, it everybody else that’s not allowed to complain.
RIP science. The king doesn't like what he hears..
suprising nobody, after the NYT Daily podcast yesterday....
Why is it legal for him to cut funding? I thought Congress does that
In other words, ‘the work’ promoted the truth that the Trump administration wants to deny. They are not here to serve us well. Trump is here purely to grift, at the world’s peril.
Slash, pillage & burn! All if these cuts are incredibly destructive & devastating. Thanks for always speaking out.
Eliminating NOAA so we can’t know when catastrophic weather is coming✔️Eliminating FEMA so the fed govt doesn’t have to pay for the results of catastrophic weather events✔️ Removing funding from places that study catastrophic weather so we remain unaware of the cost of coal and deforestation✔️
Way to go non-voters, looking at you millennials (only 42% of y’all showed up). This is YOUR future 😤
Yes, let’s all ignore it so we don’t feel anxious about it. How stupid is this? Maybe the administration is too delicate to feel anxiety about it, but there are grownups out here that want to everything we can so we can SOLVE it. Imagine that!!
Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton all being targeted. By chance, did they all say NO to admitting a terrible student from a rich family back in the '70s? A student so bad it didn't matter how much money Daddy donated? Money Wharton accepted? Just spitballin' here.
Or maybe more recently
Can't have climate change if you don't know anything about it, see? That's some real thinkin'.
Climate change deniers.
Trump is not only going to ruin United States he is taking the whole world down Calling climate change a hoax is the hoax The lying convicted fraudster and serial raper is now screwing people at a pace "WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE" screwing you, your family and your country citizensimpeachment.com
This asshole and his cronies are not only trying to take over our country They are destroying the world Don't look up terrorists of a different king support Operation anti king citizensimpeachment.com
Fucked Up!!!
Ah, the infallible justification of “I said so”. True leadership
No end in sight in the damage Donald Trump is doing to our environment and our country! The sad thing is we know the worst is yet to come with this corrupt, deranged, degenerate, treasonous asshole! Canada looks better every day but they understandable wouldn't let me or any Americans in anymore!
Princeton has a $35 billion+ endowment. Time to put on their big kid pants. Although up here in Canada we are glad to take your top academics
Fairytale for people who enjoy breathing! 😮💨 Nothing to see here!
Because pretending a problem doesn't exist is a great way to solve it.
They have noticed that Gen Z has decided not to have kids because of climate change. Definitely cancel climate change research.
This is how the world ends not with a bang but with greedy assholes killing us all to make a few more dollars.
"exagerated climate threats" : www.weather.gov/news/250703_...
I'm beginning to hope that all the big hurricanes of the year will pass through Florida...
A paltry 4 million because president poopy pants is a climate change denier. But a 100 million dollar military birthday parade must happen!! He’s spending taxpayers money like it’s his own personal piggy bank.
Clowns
Just because you hide the truth doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
Ah, yes …. The old “if I close my eyes, the problem disappears” trick ….. 🙄
It is an absolute abomination that Scientific Research at the #CDC, #NIH, Colleges and Universities, think tanks, etc. is being obliterated by the Trump Administration.
Arizyhit one hundred yesterday! The first in recorded history this early in the season. Also he is starting a war again with Mexico accusing them of stealing water! Probably because the arid conditions of our border is worse. Yes it’s all so incredibly stupid
Should say Arizona and why that make believe word showed up is beyond me
Gonna check and see if I can donate to their research...If millions of Americans donated a dollar we can make up 4 million. We have to learn the power we have collectively.
I belief this is known as the Ostrich approach to problems.
The anxiety they are trying to quell is that of big polluters and such.
Ah the irony of Trump's claim to avoid anxiety as a motivator. Pfft
Bastards
The fat orange slob felon is a climate disaster like every waking moment of it's miserable life
In other words, big oil companies don't want to be held accountable for their actions as they drill for more and wreck the planet.
Oh i just thought of a better headline: "Trump cuts federal funding to Princeton because he says education is scary"
Pretty sure a trade war, threatening allies, crashing the market only to profit off it, saying we're being invaded by immigrants, saying LGBTQ+ people are going to abuse kids, saying we have immigrants taking over cities, etc etc all causes a of a lot more anxiety. We gonna defund the entire GOP?
If you don’t test there won’t be cases……
"How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing." ~ David Attenborough
What a lame spin. Their ignorance and stupidity is shining through. Along with their corruption and dishonesty.
Can't have young adults concerned about anything that might affect their future if it changes their behaviors in the present? What you don't know might hurt you, so just better to remain ignorant so not to stress out?
Suddenly he's concerned about anxiety among young Americans. Really??????????
He’s going to reduce anxiety in young people by dismissing reality. That should work. Not.
Good God! He's causing increased anxiety all over the world. Can we please cut federal funding for him??
It’s that “winning” RepugliKKKan Trump plan of “if we don’t test for Covid - the infection rates go down!”
FUCK REPUBLICANS!
“Don’t look up!!”
If you need funds to please your boss you have to be creative to make the case that certain allocated funds are not worth keeping.
Trump won't believe in climate change until Mar-a-Lago is underwater 🌊🌊🌊
"This is fine" meme, but literally.
Reminds me of the line from that brilliant Futurama episode 'A Big piece of Garbage'... “Some experts claim the ball might return to Earth someday, but their concerns were dismissed as ‘depressing’”
Once again I regretfully have to inform people that climate change is not the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal...
Don’t look up!
Which billionaire will kick in $4 million? That's pennies to them.
Should feel anxious. Unless understand & deal with climate change, will kill our children. But Trump Whitehouse already killing children. From measles & other diseases they mis- message, withdrawal of USAid, Gaza/Ukraine policy, imm., purge, encouraging guns & gun violence & sheer bloody ignorance.
Just like Covid didn’t go away if you didn’t test
THIS INCREASES MY ANXIETY
Coming up: Trump expected to sign EO banning smoke detectors, as they trigger anxiety in the residents when they go off.
This is tyranny
Just more horrible news. When you deny facts, you fail. It’s not hard to understand scientific cause and effect. If I didn’t know better…I’d think they are trying to just kill the planet, I guess I prefer to love and care for OUR world, and like has been said, there’s no Planet B folks. 😩
Putin wants a balmy Russia he WANTS climate change
👆👆👆👆that’s actually true
If he's so concerned about people's anxiety. He could drive a golf cart off a cliff and cure the country.
Taking from his old playbook. If we don't test for covid, the numbers will go down
It's all so stupid. We knew this was coming (followed your and Jesse's Project 2025 series) but doesn't make it any less stupid, short-sighted or self-defeating.
The nerve of these pricks...
You know what causes “climate anxiety?” Climate change. Not the study of it.
Don’t look up
“We’re canceling the fire alarm because it’s scaring the kids.” Same energy.
www.project2025.observer 96/301
By the time the air is unbreathable and we have passed the point of no return, those young people will be in their 40’s and all the monsters who caused this mess will be dead.
I guess they all plan to fly to Mars. Tell that to the poor idiots that voted for Trump in those red states that are now being flooded. But according to MTG the Democrats are controlling the weather from Greenland causing all the flooding and the fires. Wish we could send that to Mar Largo!!
as America watches...............
Pretty sure Netflix had a movie about ignoring scientists warning of a disaster. This is the dumbest administration. How many people will die this time around? A million during COVID denialism.
trump is repeating the same old song as in his first administration, 'the facts and figures make me look bad, so we aren't going to report them, no matter how much that will increase the harm done by not knowing'! The problem doesn't go away, we just won't know how bad it will get!
It’s a death cult
Hilarious how repeating the Trump Cinematic Universe's lies about COVID-19 didn't save Princeton. www.panaccindex.info/p/princetons...
Science is so meh
😱
Actually increased activity of floods, drought, tornadoes, and hurricanes are devastating families.
Idiots. There's no place for the water to go. Waterfront property will be cheap, including Mar a Lago.
And coming after states on CC as well.
increased anxiety? by that logic, the trump regime needs to be defunded
This is the equivalent of handling the rising cases of Covid in 2020 by telling people to stop testing for it so the numbers didn’t look so bad.
Who’s a snowflake now?
When Trump’s gaudy palace of greed sinks into the Atlantic he’ll be nothing more than a horrible memory.
how do they legally do that?
Truly wild to see that rationale... bsky.app/profile/did:...
Don't teach young people things that might cause them to think independently.
He will never control mother nature. He can't stand it.
Weren't these funds previously approved? Congress has acquiesced all their power to a madman.
Too many people shit. We are banning toilet paper....
This is tyranny and we can depose this dictator like every other country does.🔥
He hates education! That’s what dictators do! That’s what Russia has done to their citizens. Fuck Trump and his regime!
If Trump causes a global recession or depression he will inadvertently reduce carbon output by slashing consumption. He's so anti-climate, I wonder if he would change his mind on tariffs if someone pointed that out to him. 😂