US president retweets her emotional UN summit speech, calling activist a ‘happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future’
Thunberg responds by changing her social media profile to reflect Trump’s taunt
Reuters
Published: 1:40am, 25 Sep, 2019
Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shot back at on Tuesday at US President Donald Trump’s attempt to mock her on Twitter by changing her profile on the social media site to reflect Trump’s taunting remark.
Late on Monday, Trump retweeted a clip of the 16-year-old’s speech at a United Nations climate summit in which she angrily denounced world leaders for failing to tackle climate change by demanding:
“How dare you?”
Donald J. Trump
✔@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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”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
WIRED
✔@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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Trump, 73, commented: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”
By Tuesday, Thunberg shot back, changing her Twitter description to: “A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”
A Reuters video of Thunberg glaring at Trump as he entered the United Nations in New York on Monday went viral on social media.
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Thunberg started missing school on Fridays a year ago to protest for climate action outside the Swedish parliament, inspiring millions of children and sparking a global climate strike movement known as Fridays for Future.
On Tuesday, the hashtags #GretaThunbergOutdidTrump and #BeBest were trending in the United States. “Be Best” is US first lady Melania Trump’s campaign against cyber bullying.
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Thunberg is in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the few people whose nomination has become known before the awards ceremony. She is the bookmakers’ favourite to win the prize next month.
Trump has made the case that he
deserves to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and commented again on Monday when asked about the topic.
“I think I’m going to get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which they don’t,” Trump said.
A screen grab of Greta Thunberg's updated Twitter profile. Image: Twitter
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Meanwhile, Fox News has apologised for a guest who called Thunberg mentally ill, and said he would never appear on the network again.
Michael Knowles of “The Daily Wire” made the comment on Monday during a segment on a Fox evening newscast, also saying Thunberg was being exploited by her parents and the left wing.
Fox had no comment on Tuesday about its own prime-time host, Laura Ingraham, who likened Thunberg to a murderous child cult leader from a Stephen King short story.
The network said in a statement that Knowles’ comment was disgraceful.
Additional reporting by Associated Press
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