Daniel Wolfram
It was an eventful day for Trump as he said “the power of this office is crazy” while claiming he could have banned fishing
During a speech in the Rose Garden at the White House, President Donald Trump loudly proclaimed that he could have stopped fishing with a snap of his fingers.
The event was held after Trump signed executive orders reversing President Joe Biden’s previous restrictions on hunting and fishing.
Seemingly, it was not enough, as Trump had to proclaim that he was the best president for fishermen since the 26th president.
“America’s outdoorsmen have not had a better friend in the Oval Office for many, many years. Probably the late, great President Theodore Roosevelt was very good,” Trump said, according to The Independent.
Drunk with power
Trump was not done with his bombastic statements. He turned his attention to the billionaire founder of Bass Pro Shops, Johnny Morris, and fired off a veiled threat.
“I’ll tell you what. The power of this office is crazy. I could have banned fishing and driven Johnny right the hell out of business. Okay. I think I’m going to do that. Just maybe just a quick order, just for a day or two, till he calls me and he says, ‘Please, President, please, you’re putting me out of business, sir,’” Trump said while looking directly at Morris.
Trump seemed to relish power over billionaire fishermen
The president was in a vainglorious mood that also came off as self-serving and was meant to get the billionaires and outdoor enthusiasts to appreciate what he had just done for them.
Trump was using Johnny Morris as an example of his power and how grateful they should be that he chose to reverse Biden’s orders and make the laws more lenient.
After all, according to Trump, he could have “banned fishing.”
The Trump administration now also allows the killing of endangered species
It was also announced yesterday that accidentally killing what are considered endangered animals is no longer illegal under a new reading of the Endangered Species Act.
This has made wildlife conservationists and zookeepers very upset that the new interpretation is wildly unfocused.
“It just creates a huge loophole,” said Dan Ashe to ABC News, who was the head of the Fish and Wildlife Service under President Barack Obama. “It completely relieves people of any responsibility for their actions, even consequences that can be easily predicted.”
Environmentalists like Noah Greenwald also heavily criticized the new law, calling it a “free-for-all” and a “radical reinterpretation” that would neglect wildlife under the guise of billionaires expanding their industry.
