She seems
very happy': Trump appears to mock Greta Thunberg's emotional speech
Teenage
climate activists told world leaders ‘you are failing us’ and accused them of
‘betrayal’
Kate Lyons
@MsKateLyons
Tue 24 Sep
2019 05.35 BSTLast modified on Tue 24 Sep 2019 07.07 BST
Donald
Trump appears to have taken a swipe at teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg,
tweeting a video of an emotional Thunberg with an apparently sarcastic comment
that she seems to be “very happy” and looking forward to a bright future.
“She seems
like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.
So nice to see!” tweeted the US president late on Monday night.
The
president tweeted out a video with the comment showing visibly upset Thunberg
as she delivered a blistering speech to world leaders at a United Nations
summit, saying they had betrayed young people through their inertia over the
climate crisis.
Donald J.
Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
She seems
like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.
So nice to see! https://twitter.com/wired/status/1176166230425780224 …
WIRED
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@WIRED
”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
fairytales of eternal economic growth.” Watch Greta Thunberg speak at the UN
Monday morning. https://wired.trib.al/VXdAnKt
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In the
stinging speech on Monday, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist told
governments: “You are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are
failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal.”
“You have
stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” she said.
“The eyes
of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us I say we
will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here,
right now is where we draw the line.”
Thunberg,
who kickstarted the global School Strike movement with her weekly Friday school
strikes in Sweden, has been in New York for the climate summit. She briefly
crossed paths with Donald Trump at the United Nations on Monday, as he arrived
to attend a meeting on religious freedom. The US president decided to snub a
major UN climate summit, held on the same day.
As Trump
passed in front of Thunberg, she fixed him with a steady stare, video of which
quickly went viral. Julián Castro, the Democratic presidential contender,
tweeted the video with the words: “I think a lot of us can relate.”
When
Thunberg arrived in New York late in August, she said she had little hope she
would be able to convince the president to take action on the climate
emergency: “I say ‘listen to the science’ and he obviously does not do that. If
no-one has been able to convince him about the climate crisis and the urgency,
why would I be able to?” she said.
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