Today In Trump: Politico On His Climate Change Wall, USGA & PGA Of America Moving Ahead With Events

Ben Schreckinger of Politico has reviewed a permit application for a Doonbeg sea wall filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and the documents explicitly cite global warming and its consequences to justify the structure.

This doesn't quite match his current presidential campaign rhetoric.

The zoning application raises further questions about how the billionaire developer would confront a risk he has publicly minimized but that has been identified as a defining challenge of this era by world leaders, global industry and the American military. His public disavowal of climate science at the same time he moves to secure his own holdings against the effects of climate change also illustrates the conflict between his political rhetoric and the realities of running a business with seaside assets in the 21st century.

“It's diabolical," said former South Carolina Republican Rep. Bob Inglis, an advocate of conservative solutions to climate change. “Donald Trump is working to ensure his at-risk properties and his company is trying to figure out how to deal with sea level rise. Meanwhile, he’s saying things to audiences that he must know are not true. … You have a soft place in your heart for people who are honestly ignorant, but people who are deceitful, that’s a different thing.”

Meanwhile Lee Ross of FoxNews.com gets confirmation from the USGA and PGA of America that after their evaluation periods, it's all systems go for Trump Bedminster in the 2017 U.S. Women's Open and the 2017 Senior PGA at Trump National on the Potomac.

“While our position on Mr. Trump’s views has been well documented, we are singularly focused on conducting a stellar U.S. Women’s Open at the course, where we have successfully conducted championships in the past,” the spokesperson also said.

The PGA of America also confirmed to Fox that it intends to host next year’s Senior PGA Championship at the Trump National Golf Club, near Washington D.C.