evidence: In a January interview with ITV, President Trump claimed that the ice caps are not melting but are setting records: "The ice caps were going to melt. They’re at a record level." [...] This claim is misleading in the extreme—the ice caps are indeed setting records, but not in the way President Trump is implying. The USA’s own National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that December 2017 was the second lowest December extent on record for Arctic sea ice extent (see below), and the Greenland ice sheet continues to set record lows (see below). Antarctica is also losing land ice, and at an accelerating rate*. [...] President Trumps comments that "The ice caps were going to melt. They were going to be gone by now" may be the result of predictions made a few years ago by an overly enthusiastic Arctic scientist who I choose not to name here. At the time the climate science community rejected such extreme predictions, however the headlines stuck and return here to the detriment of the community and the planet.