Ignoring all of the other lies about “hottest year ever” – the claims are based primarily on Arctic winter temperatures of -20C instead of -25C. Nobody thinks of -20C as “hot.”
It has been hot this summer, but America used to be much hotter. On this date in 1936 it was 117 degrees at Logan, Iowa. Today’s forecast high is 87 degrees there, 30 degrees cooler.