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Tue Sep 24, 2019, 02:07 PM Sep 2019

Greta Thunberg turns Trump's attack back on him

President Trump seemed to mock Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, the day after her emotional speech at the United Nations charging world leaders with stealing “my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” But Thunberg turned Trump’s heavy-handed irony back on him using his favorite medium, Twitter.

“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future,” Trump wrote in a tweet that included a video clip of her speech. “So nice to see!”

The 16-year-old responded by changing her Twitter bio to read: “A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”


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In an angry and impassioned speech at the U.N. climate summit Monday, Thunberg denounced world leaders for their neglect of the threat of global warming.

“This is all wrong,” Thunberg said, reading from a piece of paper. “I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, yet you come to us young people for hope. How dare you.”

“People are suffering,” the 16-year-old continued through tears. “People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”

https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-trump-twitter-bio-very-happy-young-girl-looking-forward-bright-wonderful-future-162228420.html
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