What if Trump becomes a green warrior? It's not too far-fetched

Many of his actions stray from his professed ideological moorings but it may be part of a larger trend

- DEVINA MEHRA

You have heard Donald Trump jeer at 'woke' left-wingers, dismiss climate warriors and promise to go all out to promote oil drilling even in the Alaskan wilderness. But what if he's a closet green warrior? So stealthy that he himself may not know it? I'm serious. Hear me out.

Forget what the US president said during his campaign and in his inaugural speech, and look at what happened: his actions and their consequences. "Drill, baby, drill," Trump had said to encourage crude oil production and consumption. But then what did he do? He bought Teslas, whose whole reason for existence is the green movement. Whether electric vehicles are actually all that green, given that electricity is often generated from fossil fuels, is a discussion for another day.

Then there was all his talk of more consumption because all this climate change and other ecology-related stuff was bunkum dreamt up by villainous woke liberals and American values were about higher consumption. From there, it has come to Trump saying that American kids can do just fine with two dolls instead of 30 and even those two dolls will cost more! If any one person could make a serious dent on the unsustainable level of consumption in America, it is Trump. So kudos to him from the reviled green gang.