Thrashing around for something else to destroy, he has now hit upon the Utah National Monument, where amazing dinosaur fossils have been found and where much more remains to be unearthed. He has, at a stroke of his wild pen, radically reduced the size of the protected area, so that his billionaire chums can go mining coal, uranium and shale-oil to their hearts’ content.

He probably agrees with his Young Earth friends in the Institute for Creation Research and among the rightwing evangelicals, who believe the Earth to be only 6,000 years old, so that fossils cannot be millions of years old. They were put in the ground by God as a ruse to tantalise the wayward.

This destructive buffoon is the most powerful man in the world. What a deplorable state the human race has got itself into!