WASHINGTON: As if its own woes with air pollution is not enough of a headache, New Delhi has to deal with another pointless stink bomb: US President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that garbage from India is floating all the way to Los Angeles.In another rambling screed that has become typical of him, Trump railed against the rest of the world, including the developing world, telling the Economic Club of New York that everyone was taking advantage of the United States before he came along and saved the country from rack and ruin because of exploitation by foreign countries.He was particularly agitated that the rest of the world, particularly developing countries such as China and India, had corralled Washington into the Paris Accord on climate change and put the onus on the US to clean up the planet while themselves not doing much. The Accord, Trump claimed, would have done “trillions and trillions of dollars of destruction” to the United States if he had not pulled the country out of it.“You know, I have a little problem. We have a relatively small piece of land -- the United States. And you compare that to some of the other countries like China, like India, like Russia, like many other countries that absolutely are doing absolutely nothing to clean up their smokestacks and all of the garbage that they’re dropping in sea and that floats into Los Angeles... Isn’t amazing it ends up in Los Angeles?” Trump said in a trademark rambling speech replete with mangled syntax, hyperbole, and spurious claims.The US President seemed to be referring to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), also called the Pacific Trash Vortex, a vast collection of marine debris that is floating between Hawaii and California. Consisting of plastic, chemical sludge, and wood pulp among other debris, some of it is reported to have washed up near Los Angeles.But analysis of the debris by experts has identified China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam as the primary sources of GPGP, not India.Besides, the “relatively small piece of land” Trump referred to is the fourth largest country in the world, about four times the size of India, with one-fourth India’s population. It is also the largest polluter in world history, emitting more greenhouse gases per capita than China and India combined.Still, Trump complained the Paris accord is “so unfair” because it “doesn’t kick in for China until 2030” and “India, we are supposed to pay them money because they are a developing nation.”“I said, “We’re a developing nation, too,” Trump joked amid laughter from the New York financial elite, claiming that the world considered the United States “a big, fat cow” and took advantage of it, but it would no longer be the case.The American President also bragged about the United States becoming the “the number-one producer of oil and natural gas on the entire planet Earth” and its energy imports reaching a historic 58-year low.“We are now a net exporter of natural gas, and we recently became a net exporter of crude oil and petroleum products for the first time in our country’s history. It’s a big thing,” he boasted.While India began trying to wean itself off hydrocarbons consequent to the Paris Accord among other factors, Trump's hydrocarbon-rich America now wants New Delhi to buy more and more hydrocarbons from half-a-world away.Because of his achievements on the energy front and the economic front, Trump went on to claim that even people who don’t like him have “no choice but to vote for me.”