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riversedge

(70,077 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 01:00 PM Sep 2019

Trump mocks teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg

Source: CNN



Updated 11:44 AM ET, Tue September 24, 2019
Greta Thunberg: You are failing us. How dare you


Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump mocked Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Twitter late Monday night after the 16-year-old excoriated world leaders for not doing enough to tackle the climate crisis.

"She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!" Trump posted on Twitter, replying to a video of Thunberg's speech at the United Nations climate action summit earlier in the day.

Trump's penchant for Twitter insults and online confrontations with people he sees as political adversaries is well known, though Monday's tweet is a striking display of the President teasing a child.

Thunberg appeared to take Trump's slight in stride. By late Tuesday morning, she had updated her Twitter bio to read: "A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future."

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/24/politics/trump-greta-thunberg-climate-change-trnd/index.html

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bdamomma

(63,799 posts)
6. He's nothing but a bully
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 01:35 PM
Sep 2019

karma will not be kind to the POS. He deserves the wrath of a higher power, to just stop him in his tracks.

aggiesal

(8,907 posts)
9. IQ45 (My pet name for Donnie-Two-Scoops), may be too high a number for this idiot ...
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 02:09 PM
Sep 2019

Maybe IQ1 is more appropriate.

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