Donald Trump

==== Climate change, environment, and energy ====
{{Main|Environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration}}
Trump rejects the [[scientific consensus on climate change]].<ref>{{cite web|first1=Ashley|last1=Parker|author-link1=Ashley Parker|first2=Coral|last2=Davenport|title=Donald Trump's Energy Plan: More Fossil Fuels and Fewer Rules|date=May 26, 2016|access-date=October 3, 2021|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/us/politics/donald-trump-global-warming-energy-policy.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Jason|last=Samenow|author-link=Jason Samenow|title=Donald Trump's unsettling nonsense on weather and climate|date=March 22, 2016|access-date=October 3, 2021|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/03/22/donald-trumps-unsettling-nonsense-on-weather-and-climate}}</ref> He reduced the budget for renewable energy research by 40 percent and reversed Obama-era policies directed at curbing climate change.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trump proposes cuts to climate and clean-energy programs|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment|date=May 3, 2019|work=[[National Geographic Society]]|access-date=November 24, 2023}}</ref> In June 2017, Trump announced the [[withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement|U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement]], making the U.S. the only nation to not ratify the agreement.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dennis|first=Brady|title=As Syria embraces Paris climate deal, it's the United States against the world|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/07/as-syria-embraces-paris-climate-deal-its-the-united-states-against-the-world|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 7, 2017|access-date=May 28, 2018}}</ref>

Trump aimed to boost the production and exports of [[fossil fuel]]s.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gardner|first=Timothy|title=Senate confirms Brouillette, former Ford lobbyist, as energy secretary|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-energy-brouillette/senate-confirms-brouillette-former-ford-lobbyist-as-energy-secretary-idUSKBN1Y62E6|access-date=December 15, 2019|work=[[Reuters]]|date=December 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/mt-state-wire-climate-ap-top-news-climate-change-ca-state-wire-2b44ced0e892d7e988e40a486d875b5d|work=[[Associated Press]]|title=Trump's fossil fuel agenda gets pushback from federal judges|first=Matthew|last=Brown|date=September 15, 2020|access-date=October 3, 2021}}</ref> Natural gas expanded under Trump, but coal continued to decline.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/trump-coal-industry.html|title='The Coal Industry Is Back,' Trump Proclaimed. It Wasn't.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 5, 2020|access-date=October 3, 2021|first=Eric|last=Lipton}}</ref><ref name=Subramaniam>{{cite web|first=Tara|last=Subramaniam|url=https://cnn.com/2021/01/30/politics/trump-broken-promises/|title=From building the wall to bringing back coal: Some of Trump's more notable broken promises|work=[[CNN]]|date=January 30, 2021|access-date=October 3, 2021}}</ref> Trump rolled back more than 100 federal environmental regulations, including those that curbed [[greenhouse gas emissions]], air and water pollution, and the use of toxic substances. He weakened protections for animals and environmental standards for federal infrastructure projects, and expanded permitted areas for drilling and resource extraction, such as allowing [[Arctic Refuge drilling controversy|drilling in the Arctic Refuge]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Popovich|first1=Nadja|last2=Albeck-Ripka|first2=Livia|last3=Pierre-Louis|first3=Kendra|title=The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here's the Full List.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 20, 2021|access-date=December 21, 2023}}</ref>