hoax

Authorities determined that to be a hoax call.

Which is doubly bonkers since he seemed to fall for a hoax video that showed him giving a speech he didn’t give.

"The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they're heading down a path of total destruction," he said.

He called climate change a ‘hoax’ and derided clean energy.

"I remember vividly talking to people in the office and thinking it was a hoax - that's where the excitement level was," he said.