Not satisfied with scouring national monuments and poisoning our air, Trump has signed an executive order giving the green light to extremely dangerous and environmentally damaging deep sea mining operations in an unhinged scheme to compete with China in the critical minerals industry; a task which, stop me if you've heard this one before, Trump has declared a "national emergency."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-deep-sea-mining

Trump Signs Executive Order to Advance 'Deeply Dangerous' Deep-Sea Mining

"Deep-sea mining is opposed by over 30 countries as well as academics and advocacy groups worldwide. Among them is Greenpeace USA, whose campaigner Arlo Hemphill said Thursday that "authorizing deep-sea mining outside international law is like lighting a match in a room full of dynamite—it threatens ecosystems, global cooperation, and U.S. credibility all at once."

"We condemn this administration's attempt to launch this destructive industry on the high seas in the Pacific by bypassing the United Nations process," Hemphill declared. "This is an insult to multilateralism and a slap in the face to all the countries and millions of people around the world who oppose this dangerous industry."

While the article goes on to note that this executive order in no way guarantees extractivist corporations will be able to successfully mine in the deep sea, I think we all understand that these greedbag sociopaths can do a fuck lot of damage to our oceans, a resource shared by the entire human species, while failing to profitably mine critical minerals. Furthermore, this order must be understood as part of a much larger environmental strategy by the Trump regime that from out here, sure as shit looks like letting the regime's billionaire supporters loot the till while the house burns down.