Before he set sights on Mexico, Donald Trump had his eyes on a wall to protect his luxury golf resort. Does it suggest he recognizes effects of global warming?
On election night in Tubridys bar, one of few buildings in the village of Doonbeg, Ireland, that was still open at midnight, pints of Guinness were being poured with Trump written on top in creamy froth. A few local men huddled around the bar discussing their mans chances.
If he wins, well get that wall built, sure enough! one of them cheered.
The wall, however, wasnt the one you would first think of.
Long before he set his sights on Mexico, Donald Trump had his eyes on a different wall. He wanted to build one on the Irish coast of County Clare a 13ft high structure erected to protect his luxury golf resort, the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel, from increasingly volatile storms and rising sea levels.
While the president-elect announced a climate-change skeptic as the leader of the Environmental Protection Agency transition team, this move to protect his investment suggests Trump recognizes the effects of a changing climate.
Propped at the bar, Martin Kelly, a 46-year-old local contractor from Doonbeg, boasted of how he helped lay the foundations of the first golf resort in the village. He hopes to be a leading contender for the contract to work on the wall Trump is determined to build. His mother works at the golf resort, and Kelly says the company has been good to its employees and local contractors.
Im delighted to see him get in, Kelly said the next morning as he drove along the wide, curving expanse of Doughmore beach in front of the course. He spends money and is minding jobs. He gets the local man like me.
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