President Trump Delivers Remarks on America’s Environmental Leadership. It sounds like an April Fool’s joke or the quip of a lazy headline writer at The Onion. And yet that’s exactly what happened on Monday in the East Room of the White House, as Trump and his cabinet performed a carefully choreographed—but poorly scripted—play of this administration’s imagined environmental accomplishments.
Reporters and other political observers spent much of Monday scratching their heads about why, exactly, the White House was going through the exercise. | 
