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Greta Thunberg has been sitting on this comeback for a while. Eleven months, in fact.
When the young climate activist was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in December 2019, President Trump tweeted that the award was “so ridiculous.”
“Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!” he wrote, adding, “Chill Greta, Chill!” Thunberg responded by adding the remarks to her Twitter bio at the time, describing herself as “a teenager working on her anger management problem” and “currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend.”
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So in the wake of Trump’s repeated false allegations of voting fraud in the tight presidential race with Democratic challenger Joe Biden, which has led to several of Trump’s tweets being flagged for misinformation by Twitter, as well as numerous news channels cutting away from his White House address on Thursday night, Thunberg flipped the script.
She quoted one of the president’s tweets demanding “STOP THE COUNT” by writing, “So ridiculous,” before suggesting that Trump work on his “anger management problem” and go to “a good old fashioned movie with a friend.”
“Chill Donald, Chill!” she added. Her tweet and her name soon trended on Twitter on Thursday.
The 74-year-old Trump and 17-year-old Thunberg have had a spirited back-and-forth for the past year or so.
After Thunberg called out global leaders for their “betrayal” of the world’s youth by remaining inactive on the climate crisis during an impassioned 2019 speech at the United Nations climate summit, Trump sarcastically tweeted that, “she seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”
Thunberg also responded to that barb by making the phrase her Twitter bio.
Thunberg might be more accepting of Biden, however, considering he has pledged that if he’s elected president, he will have the U.S. rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, which the Trump administration officially pulled out of this week.
Indeed, she told the BBC last December that “I wouldn’t have wasted my time” talking to Trump about climate change. “Because obviously he’s not listening to scientists and experts, so why would he listen to me?” she said.
