Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth said Donald Trump had been far worse for the scientific community than the magazine feared in 2016, when it did not endorse Hillary Clinton. .

An editorial published on Tuesday lambasted Trump for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic, questioning the science of climate change and cutting budgets for science and disease prevention.  ?

'The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the United States and its people because he rejects evidence and science,' senior editor Josh Fischman wrote. .

The magazine's endorsement was posted online on Tuesday, a day after Trump questioned the science of climate change in relation to California's wildfires. .

The editorial berated Trump for failing to develop a testing strategy during the pandemic, scorning the use of masks and feuding with top adviser Anthony Fauci. 

The magazine berated Trump for questioning the science of climate change, blamed by state governors for the current West Coast wildfires (pictured, a blaze in Oroville, California)

Aside from coronavirus, the magazine slammed Trump for proposing cuts to scientific programs and pulling the US out of the Paris climate change accords. 

'In his ongoing denial of reality, Trump has hobbled US preparations for climate change,' the article says.  

On Monday, Trump was confronted during a California wildfires briefing about the need to address climate change - and responded that the Earth would get cooler

The magazine lambasted Trump (pictured) for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused more deaths in the US than anywhere else in the world 

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