Trump Calls Climate Change Policy ‘Greatest Con Job Ever Perpetrated’, Faults It for West’s Decline
President Donald Trump delivered a blistering rebuke of global climate change policies during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, calling the climate agenda “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and warning that Western nations are destroying themselves under the weight of their own environmental orthodoxy.
“You know, it used to be global cooling,” Trump said. “Then they said global warming. Now they say climate change—because that way they can’t miss. Whether it gets hotter, colder, wetter, drier—no matter what happens, they’ll say it’s proof.”
Trump argued that predictions from global institutions and legacy media have consistently been wrong for decades, yet continue to be treated as gospel. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes.”
He ridiculed renewable energy mandates and green subsidies, pointing to failed predictions like the “disappearing” glaciers of Montana’s Glacier National Park and the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro, which former Vice President Al Gore famously claimed would vanish.
Trump also cited a recent study by Dutch engineer Hessel Voortman and researcher Rob de Vos that found sea level rise to be far slower than previously claimed—approximately 1.5 millimeters per year, or 6 inches per century, based on 200 tide gauges over 60 years. “These are real numbers,” Trump said. “Not alarmist garbage cooked up by elites who fly private and lecture you about car emissions.”
He slammed windmills and solar power as “pathetic,” “expensive,” and “disruptive to American farmland,” insisting the push toward so-called green energy is weakening national economies. “I’ve been right about everything,” Trump declared. “And I’m telling you, if you don’t get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail.”
The president also called out Europe’s energy policies, blaming high electricity costs for staggering heat-related death rates. “While the U.S. loses 1,300 people annually to heat, Europe loses 175,000,” Trump said. “Why? Because it’s so expensive to run an air conditioner over there, people just don’t do it.”
He didn’t just criticize—he offered an alternative. “The United States stands ready to provide abundant, affordable energy to any nation that needs it,” he said, highlighting the boom in U.S. fossil fuel production under his administration.
Trump wrapped the 57-minute speech with a flurry of punches aimed at the UN’s credibility, global conflicts, and climate absolutists. The chamber, packed with foreign dignitaries, remained tense and largely quiet, with murmurs rippling through the room as he took direct aim at what he called the “carbon footprint hoax.”
“This climate agenda is not about science,” Trump said. “It’s about control. And I will not let it destroy America.”