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As a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly professed his love of clean air and water, but he also dismissed climate change as a hoax, railed against zero emission electric vehicles and expressed contempt for the environmental regulations that seek to protect California rivers and estuaries.

The vice president-elect, JD Vance, has in the past professed indifference to Ukraine’s fate.

Long before he entered politics, Trump grew up watching wrestling as a child in Queens, New York and he has always professed a deep reverence for its larger-than-life entertainers.

She professed her desire to hustle beyond her short-lived stint in G.L.A.M., a pop girl group.

If this is how a professed advocate for an open-source world is behaving, is there really any future left for the open-source dream of the World Wide Web?