Former President Donald Trump blasted U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry in a Fox News city corridor occasion for his local weather activism and advised the viewers that the previous Democratic presidential candidate “has to be stopped.”
“I see John Kerry all over the place talking about [how] we have to get rid of our coal plants,” Trump advised Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“And yet China is building one coal plant a week, massive coal plants, and they’re doing it just automatically. And John Kerry wants us to stop doing anything we can. We have a country, we have to fire up our factories. Wind is not going to fire up our factories.”
Moments later, when discussing American vitality independence, Trump stated, “Our country can be rich again. John Kerry has to be stopped. He’s destroying our country.”
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“This guy, I mean, think of it,” Trump continued. “He goes all over the world in a private jet, by the way. He goes all over the world talking to these people about getting rid of coal plants. They all laugh at him. They, you know, treat him with respect. He’s gone. They say, what an idiot. What a jerk. And then they go ahead and they build their coal plants.”
Kerry has been extensively criticized by conservatives for utilizing a personal jet whereas railing in opposition to the consequences of local weather change.
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Additionally, Kerry has been slammed by conservatives for a number of controversial feedback associated to how he would really like the United States to deal with local weather change together with a current assertion the place he referred to as for a halt in new coal energy plant manufacturing.
“The first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants,” Kerry stated at a local weather change summit in Dubai.
Kerry has additionally beforehand dismissed issues that tens of hundreds of coal staff in America may lose their jobs if his insurance policies are carried out describing that notion as a “false narrative.”
At the identical convention in Dubai, Kerry pledged to slash emissions from AC models, fridges to battle local weather change.
Fox News Digital reached out to Kerry’s workplace for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
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