Trump Mocking Teen Activist Greta Thunberg is Unforgivable

Phaylen Fairchild
3 min readSep 24, 2019

USA President Donald Trump used twitter to post a video of the 16-year old Climate Activist, cruelly mocking her speech to the UN Climate Council.

World leaders congregated in New York City on Monday to discuss the imminent effects of climate change and the United States was the only sitting member of the United Nations to skip the council.

President Trump opted instead to give a speech at another summit focusing on religious freedom, further dividing the country and thumbing his nose at the first Constitutional Amendment requiring a Separation of Church and State. Evangelists are Trumps biggest sect of voters and he has made religious conservatives the focus of his campaign. He has the dubious distinction of being the first President- and Mike Pence the first Vice President the following year- to speak at the Value Voters Summit; A convention of religious radicals who preach hellfire and brimstone threats to LGBT Americans, promote conversion therapy and distribute hateful propaganda.

In theme, that specific part of Trump’s base are staunch deniers of Science, including the effects of climate change. Since taking up his post in the White House, Trump and his administration have rolled back nearly all environmental pollution regulations on behalf of corporate and industrial lobbyists who prop…

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Phaylen Fairchild

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