During a campaign pit stop in Las Vegas, former President Donald Trump talked about the border, the economy and doubled down on criticizing his biggest rival, 2024 opponent Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), DeadState reports.

“I’m not a big fan of his and he’s highly overrated. He’s highly overrated,” Trump repeated. “Remember, he’s the one that wanted to cut Social Security. He’s the one that wanted to raise the minimum age and he voted on this,” Trump said, referring to DeSantis.

“This isn’t just. And the one thing you have to remember when a politician comes out with an initial plan and then they go into a corner because they’re getting killed because he’s getting killed,” Trump explained. Well, he also has no personality. That helps, right?”

Trump also took a moment to demonstrate his geographical acumen by making a silly wisecrack seeming to refer to climate change. Which he has of course previously claimed is a hoax created by the Chinese.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

But Bloomberg’s Ryan Beckwith reported that Trump made some well, odd claims regarding what may be possible with geography, pointing out that while Nevada has no ocean, that may change.

“Trump in Las Vegas notes that Nevada has no ocean. ‘Maybe someday you’ll have the ocean,'” Beckwith posted on Twitter.

Trump in Las Vegas notes that Nevada has no ocean. "Maybe someday you'll have the ocean."

— ryan teague beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) July 8, 2023

So, is Trump finally recognizing climate change is a problem or is he just doing this to get laughs from his audience?

“Remember, Florida is easier than other places. You have the ocean and you have the sun,” Trump allegedly said. “There’s something about that, that works. You have the sun too, but you don’t have the ocean.”

“… I can tell you. You definitely don’t have the ocean. Maybe someday you’ll have the ocean, you never know. Someday. Hopefully, it’s a long time away, right?”

Trump: You have the sun too but you don’t have the ocean. Maybe someday you’ll have the ocean, you never know. pic.twitter.com/Fjx8K0aiFI

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 9, 2023

So maybe Trump has finally got the memo that climate change is real. I think he’s just playing to his sycophantic crowd here. As The New York Times’s Coral Davenport reminds us, when he was in office, his policies resulted in rolling back or loosening nearly 100 rules and regulations on air pollution, water pollution, and atmospheric pollution. He famously refused to sign the Paris Climate Agreement.

And his stubbornness has come at a price.

Davenport writes:

“Moreover, Mr. Trump’s rollbacks of emissions policies have come at a critical moment: Over the past years, the global level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere crossed a long-feared threshold of atmospheric concentration. Now, many of the most damaging effects of climate change, including rising sea levels, deadlier storms and more devastating, droughts, and wildfires are irreversible.”

She wrote this in 2020, and that’s exactly what’s coming to pass. But Trump doesn’t care about it as long as his dangerous policies fattened his pockets and those of his billionaire buddies. That’s really all this is about. We are seeing the effects of climate change all over the world, but as long as Trump and his cronies continue to support this, things are only going to get worse.

And jokes about Nevada gaining an ocean aside, it will only get worse if he is reelected in 2024.