Proof that Donald Trump has in fact planted one tree, with French president Emmanuel Macron in 2018. (It died.) | AFP via Getty Images

Or maybe a trillion" Either way, it won?t do much to stop climate change. ?We are planting a billion trees, a billion-tree project, and it?s very exciting for a lot of people.? During the climate portion of tonight?s presidential debate ? if you could call it a debate ? President Donald Trump made this curious claim, one that left knowledgeable people saying ?huh"? Is the U.S. really planting a billion trees" And will that do anything to slow the warming climate"
During his State of the Union speech in February, Trump also mentioned something about trees, only the number he mentioned was a trillion, not a billion. ?To protect the environment, days ago, I announced that the United States will join the One Trillion Trees Initiative, an ambitious effort to bring together government and the private sector to plant new trees in America and all around the world,? he said. Yet there?s no evidence that the U.S. has launched a concerted federal effort to plant new trees since then, even though Environmental Protection Agency director Andrew Wheeler confirmed a few days later that it was, in fact, happening. The Trillion Trees Initiative is a real thing named 1t.org which was announced at this year?s World Economic Forum and sponsored by the United Nations, aiming to plant forests via a global coalition. (Many countries, inc...