"Trump's scheme is one of many in response to ongoing coastal erosion and flooding events. "
No it is not
It is specifically aimed at protecting his hotel
Your links are to old information - Trump's shit hit the fan in the last couple of weeks
This becomes tiresome

"Isnt Jim Carroll English by birth?"
My family are of Irish descent - they were driven out of Ireland by English landlords who were happy to see them starve to death 'Famine refugees'
Beside the point - I have been a frequent visitor lived here for nearly fifty years and am now living within a twenty minute drive from this hotel, and have been doing so for 20 years
I thought we'd got rid of the English absentee landlords at theb beginning of the lst century