Trump provided perhaps his most expansive views on environmental regulation in a South Carolina rally at the end of December. He entertained his audience by balking at EPA regulations restricting ozone-depleting substances, some of which were once used in pressurized cans of hair spray.

“But it’s sealed, it’s beautiful,” Trump said of his apartment. “I don’t think anything gets out. And I’m not supposed to be using hair spray.”

He then transitioned into a series of comments on climate change.

“But think of it. So Obama’s talking about all of this with the global warming and the—a lot of it’s a hoax, it’s a hoax. I mean, it’s a money-making industry, OK? It’s a hoax, a lot of it. And look, I want clean air, and I want clean water. That’s my global—I want clean, clean crystal water, and I want clean air. And we can do that, but we don’t have to destroy our businesses. ... And by the way, China isn’t abiding by anything,” Trump continued. “They’re buying all of our coal; we can’t use coal anymore essentially. They’re buying our coal, and they’re using it. Now when you talk about the planet, it’s so big out there—we’re here, they’re there, it’s like they’re our next-door neighbor, right, in terms of the universe. Miss Universe, by the way, I made a great deal when I sold—oh, did I get rich.”