Allow me to paraphrase: “You are too stupid and unreliable to make your own decisions, I know what’s best for you.”
Yup, he’s conservative through and through.
It concerns all states. Not just the ones we dump our nuclear waste in. Trump is right, can you imagine what California would do ? The entire San Joaquin valley would be made off limits.
OK, then any income from oil, mining minerals and precious metals on BLM land goes to the states, not the federal government and no mineral rights can be sold or transferred to foreign governments. If that doesn’t work for the feds, then the states should OWN and CONTROL the land, not the feds. Trump is really sucking on this one.
More of Trump’s “conservatism” on display. Ah well.. shrinking tr power of the federal government is passé anyway. Republicans and purported conservatives want a “strongman” leader now.
Kinda sounds like obama-lite to me!
The classic double bind for the Republican candidate
Hand it to the states and you are a crony capitalist because the States want to sell it...
Let the Federal govt. continue to manage it and you are a big government guy.
G. W. Bush was supposed to hand back the land...how did that work out?
Why give the land to the individuals states? It was never theirs in the first place. It was paid for by Federal dollars and/or Federal troops. Now if the Feds want to sell it at a fair market price to the states to help pay down the Federal deficit then that would be ok...for at least a portion of the land. Plus these states are just as corrupt as the Feds.
OF course then you have to assume the states will do the right thing, still dealing with Gov.. Have a regional state ordained regional landfill right down the road, steamrolled right in over the its neighbors.
Sheesh...just wrote a p.o.’d post in FAVOR of Trump and then click back to see this.
He really doesn’t understand anything this side of the freakin’ Hudson.
Yeah, keep the lands “great”. That’s what the Feds do, keep things “great”.
Don’t want to trust the states...or God forbid the VOTERS??
What an idiot.
Gee, another good reason to vote for Trump /s
Can’t wait for his sheep to explain this away.
Excess Federal lands should be sold to pay down the National Debt.
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Yeah, this is just what I need to DUMP Trump across the board! He does not share rural western American values at all. He will run roughshod over private property apparently and make deals with the foreign elites instead.
How much more, must this guy reveal, before people realize he is a) NOT a conservative; b) not about fixing the real problems we face; and c) part of the problems we face?????
The whole interview
-— “We have to be great stewards of this land. This is magnificent land. And we have to be great stewards of this land.” -—
Nothing says “great stewardship” like FedGov.
This should be added to Trump’s greatest hits collection.
I disagree with Trump on this. I live in a state that continually closes areas up here to us. The feds own 61% of the land here.
Really sad the ignorance of commenters regarding the primacy of private property on this thread.
AL: I’d like to talk about public land. Seventy percent of hunters in the West hunt on public lands managed by the federal government. Right now, there’s a lot of discussion about the federal government transferring those lands to states and the divesting of that land. Is that something you would support as President?
DT: I don’t like the idea because I want to keep the lands great, and you don’t know what the state is going to do. I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble? And I don’t think it’s something that should be sold. We have to be great stewards of this land. This is magnificent land. And we have to be great stewards of this land. And the hunters do such a great job—I mean, the hunters and the fishermen and all of the different people that use that land. So I’ve been hearing more and more about that. And it’s just like the erosion of the Second Amendment. I mean, every day you hear Hillary Clinton wants to essentially wipe out the Second Amendment. We have to protect the Second Amendment, and we have to protect our lands.
AL: Absolutely. How would you balance energy exploration and extraction on public lands? How would you balance that with the need for recreation and multiple use? Right now, gas prices are low, but they might not stay that way.
DT: Well, I’m very much into energy, and I’m very much into fracking and drilling, and we never want to be hostage again to OPEC and go back to where we were. And right now, we’re at a very interesting point because right now there’s so much energy. And I’ve always said it—there’s so much energy. And new technology has found that. And maybe that’s an advantage and maybe—actually, it’s more of an advantage in terms of your question, because we don’t have to do the kind of drilling that we did. But I am for energy exploration, as long as we don’t do anything to damage the land. And right now we don’t need too much; there’s a lot of energy.