Trump: Green New Deal sounds like a ‘high school term paper that got a low mark’

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Trump: Green New Deal sounds like a ‘high school term paper that got a low mark’

By Nathan Ouellette

Posted February 12, 2019 at 5:27pm

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President Donald Trump took a jab at the proposed Green New Deal at a rally in El Paso, Texas Monday. The president lambasted the proposal, touting economic growth and low taxes, he said that, “we are a hot, hot country.”

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