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"Marine diesel can smother habitats and wildlife, affecting their ability to regulate body temperature, potentially resulting in death."

He also recalls a shrimp dish from a Mali chef that reminded him of a smothered shrimp dish his father prepared for special occasions.

Singling out Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end fact-checking, the president said that the choice was made so that “The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.”

The biggest catalyst of anger is a smothering sense of inertia - a collective sense of a state failure to confront monstrous crimes, deliver justice and prevent it continuing to happen.

He spoke of the truth being smothered by lies while taking credit for the things he’d done as president.