The US president posted a seemingly sarcastic tweet about the 16-year-old climate activist after her address to world leaders.
Donald Trump has appeared to mock teenage activist Greta Thunberg after her passionate speech at the United Nations on climate change.
The US president posted a seemingly sarcastic tweet about the 16-year-old, in which he said she"seems a like a very happy young girl" who is"looking forward to a bright and wonderful future" alongside a video of her UN address.gathered at a climate action summit in New York that"we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth".
Mr Trump, who has previously described climate change as a"hoax", spent only a few minutes at the climate summit, a centrepiece of this year's UN General Assembly schedule.
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