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US President Donald Trump mocks climate activist Greta Thunberg after UN speech

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 23: Greta Thunberg speaks at the United Nations (U.N.) where world leaders are holding a summit on climate change on September 23, 2019 in New York City. While the U.S. will not be participating, China and about 70 other countries are expected to make announcements concerning climate change. The summit at the U.N. comes after a worldwide Youth Climate Strike on Friday, which saw millions of young people around the world demanding action to address the climate crisis. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

US President Donald Trump this morning mocked climate activist Greta Thunberg after the teenager made an impassioned speech in front of the UN yesterday.

Referring to a quote posted by Wired Magazine on Twitter, the President called the future that Thunberg was sketching out “wonderful”.

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However her vision of the future was one of crisis brought on by climate change.

“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,” she said.

Trump, seemingly sarcastically, tweeted: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”

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Thunberg, 16, shot to fame after she started striking from school to protest against climate policy in front of Swedish parliament last year.

Trump’s tweet was not the first time the teenager has been subjected to negative posts on social media by prominent figures. Earlier this year, as she was preparing to travel to New York by yacht, businessman and Brexit donor Aaron Banks joked that “freak yachting accidents do happen in August.”