Donald Trumpis no stranger to criticizing teenage climate activist and TIME’s Person of the YearGreta Thunberg. And Thunberg is very familiar with clapping back at him, in her way.
On Wednesday, the president, 73,a noted denierof climate change,tweeted angrilyabout Thunberg’sTIME honor.
“So ridiculous,” he wrote. “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”
Before too long, the 16-year-old Swedish activist hada new Twitter bio: “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend.”
She responded similarlyafter Trump’s dig at her in September, when he tweeted, sarcastically, “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”
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Last year, she began “striking” from school to raise awareness about climate change. That has inspired numerous other such protests.
“I think most people are still very unaware of how big this crisis is,” Thunbergtold PEOPLE earlier this year. “Right now, I have a lot of people listening to what I am saying,” she said then, “so I am using that platform to try to achieve a change.”
“Her rise and influence has been really extraordinary,” TIME’s editor-in-chief, Edward Felsenthal, said on theTodayshow this week. “She was a solo protester with a hand-painted sign 14 months ago. She’s now led millions of people around the world, 150 countries, to act on behalf of the planet.”
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Thunberg has not been shy about her feelings on Trump’s politics. She went viralfor an icy stareshe seemed to level his way when he crossed paths with her at the United Nations in September.
“I don’t see what I could tell him that he hasn’t already heard,” shesaid on Ellen DeGeneres’ show in November, “and I just think it would be a waste of time, really.”
source: people.com
