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Does President Trump believe that climate change is a hoax?
In 2020, Trump has stated that climate change is not a hoax.
Trump suggested it was a hoax in several tweets since 2012.
Source 1 Trump Direct Quote, via video, via CNN.com's Twitter account @CNN Politics

President Trump, after announcing an overhaul of landmark climate rules, is asked if he thinks climate change is a hoax: "Nothing is a hoax about that.... I want clean air, I want clean water and I also want jobs. I don't want to close up our industry" (2020)

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Trump's direct quote, via Twitter, via his Official Twitter Account @realDonaldTrump

"Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!"(2013)

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This is a complete Tweet with full context. Quotes involving opinions cannot be fact checked and therefore cannot use the standardized rubric, but can be verified for consistency in thought.
Source 2 Trump direct quotes, via Vox.com's compilation of climate change skepticism, as taken directly from his Official Twitter Account.
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The year of this compilation is 2017, and may not represent a modern opinion.

Vox founders Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas are affiliated with the Democratic National Party.

There is no statement or demonstrable attempt indicating that the author sought out a counter-perspective to the article's compilation (ie, Did Trump tweet anything about climate change that does not constitute skepticism? The article does not indicate whether such tweets exist or whether the author looked for them).

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