Sometimes the movies that stay with you for decades aren't the good ones, but the ones with an unforgettable ad or an utterly inane premise. That last category includes maybe the worst movie of Robert Redford's long and distinguished acting career, 1993's "Indecent Proposal", in which a beautiful and desperately cash-strapped young wife (Demi Moore) reluctantly agrees to a one-night affair with Redford's immoral billionaire for a $1 million payout. It was a dreadful film, but the sequel is always worse.
Last week, immoral billionaire-on-paper Donald Trump made his own indecent proposal to the barons of Big Oil who dined with him at Mar-a-Lago. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee told the energy moguls that he's willing to get in bed with them and satisfy their wildest fantasies of crushing regulations, undoing the war on climate change, and cutting their taxes even more . Trump's asking price was a cool $1 billion.
The "deal" – Trump's own language, according to a couple of people at the dinner organized by oil billionaire and Trump donor Harold Hamm, as reported by the Washington Post – would involve reversing dozens of environmental regulations handed down by President Biden. Most of those are aimed at halting the advance of climate change before it wreaks further havoc on U.S.
coastlines and triggers inland drought, wildfires, and extreme flooding. Trump and those around him continue to deny the seriousness and often the very existence of global warming. It's hard.
