As if Donald Trump didn’t have enough trouble this week, he took it upon himself to throw another iron in the fire: a public rebuke of teen climate activist Greta Thunberg.
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In case you’re unaware, Greta Thunberg is the 16-year-old Swedish girl who’s been making headlines of late for her environmental work to save the planet. In fact, the young climate activist made her international mark earlier this week when she addressed the UN General Assembly and “dressed down” world leaders for basically ignoring the deterioration of the planet.
“People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” Greta Thunberg told world leaders.
Then, in what was seen as a direct message to Donald Trump, she laid it all out on the line.
“How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight,” she said while fighting back tears. “You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.”
The member nations within the UN General Assembly erupted into thunderous applause.
Yes, everyone cheered Greta Thunberg. Everyone except Donald Trump, that is, who took to Twitter to mock the teen and her belief that the planet is at risk.
“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” Trump tweeted sarcastically after watching a video of Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations climate action summit earlier in the day.
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She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019
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In response to the Trump tweet, Thunberg one-upped ‘The Donald’ by briefly changing her Twitter bio to include his same wording and phrasing.
“A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future,” she wrote in her bio — as if to agree that yes, she is very happy and that her future will indeed be bright and wonderful.
Interestingly, Trump’s former White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, took issue with the rather obvious sarcasm from his former boss and also took to Twitter to let him know about it.
“Parents in America and around the world: he went after a 16-year-old girl yesterday. @realDonaldTrump unfit to serve,” Scaramucci tweeted on Tuesday.
After the transcript of the telephone call Trump made to the President of Ukraine as well as the official report from the Trump whistleblower were both made available to Congress on Wednesday, Scaramucci may be half right.
Donald Trump may not only be unfit to serve, but he could soon be kicked out of the Oval Office and told that he may no longer serve.
Oh well, it’ll serve him right for mocking a child who was not only trying to protect her future and her planet but was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize — an honor that she now shares with former President Barack Obama and something that Donald Trump does not now and may never have.
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[The teen, who has spoken openly about her *Asperger’s diagnosis, faced some mockery and personal attacks in response to her {U.N.} speech. One Fox News guest called her “a mentally ill Swedish child,” prompting the network to apologize to Thunberg and denounce the remark as “disgraceful.”
Fox News host Laura Ingraham later likened her to the children from the film adaptation of Stephen King’s “Children of the Corn.” ] – MarketWatch, Sept. 25, 2019
*Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger’s, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. (AutismSociety.org, and DSM-IV)