and the president is saying when asked about climate change, i want clean air and clean water. i mean, i think if you're a leader of another country you look at the guy and just think in addition to being a pathological liar, you think he's a simpleton. like in an incredibly complex existential threat to the planet that everyone whether they're a scientist or not understands is not about like i want clean air and clean water. yes, we all want clean air and clean water, but the president's grasp of the scale of the problem is i think part of the issue of why he doesn't show up at the meeting. you know, this is a guy who we just had reporting that he wants to nuke hurricanes. like a person who is just intellectually -- he's not a serious person and he's intellectually not capable of beginning to get even a rudimentary grasp of the scale of the problem. so in addition to that, if you add to that pathological liar to that, you understand what the world is dealing with and why. although it's symbolically