Donald Trump has paid $2 billion of our tax money for contractors to stop building wind-power stations off our coasts.

While energy prices explode, like bombs in the unplanned, unnecessary Iran war, Trump canceled new, non-polluting energy sources.

Destruction with no plan.

Now, as the climate crisis reaches irreversible proportions, Trump increases our dependence on oil-based energy.

Is he purposely destroying our air and our climate?

We won’t know for sure because he closed down four major atmosphere observatories that were measuring CO2 pollution.

The White House East Wing’s rubble, destroyed with no rebuilding plan, is another remnant of this destructive child’s tantrums that we taxpayers must pay for.

So is DOGE’s trail of useful government agencies gutted and shuttered.

Democracy itself is being destroyed by Trump and his billionaire backers, but they do have a plan: to rule as oligarchs in a dictatorship based on coercion, not cooperation.

Bruce Joffe

Piedmont