Harrison Ford has mentioned that Donald Trump’s local weather insurance policies “scare the shit” out of him.
The actor mentioned in a brand new interview with the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any insurance policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me.”
“The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy,” he continued. “[Trump] is aware of higher, however he’s an instrument of the established order and he’s being profitable, hand over fist, whereas the world goes to hell in a handbasket.”
“It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a better prison in historical past,” Ford added. It comes amid the US President’s ongoing dismantling of local weather and clear air protections since he took workplace once more in January.
Up to now throughout his second time period, he’s halted clear vitality initiatives, banned mentions of “local weather change” and “emissions” inside authorities and withdrawn the US from the Paris local weather deal.
Throughout a speech to the United Nations final month, Trump referred to local weather change as “the best con job ever perpetrated on the world”, and added: “In case you don’t get away from this inexperienced rip-off, your nation goes to fail. You want robust borders and conventional vitality sources if you will be nice once more.”
Ford, a longtime environmental advocate, mentioned Trump’s dislike of wind generators was as a result of “he has simply not seen a gold one” and that the president’s legacy on the local weather disaster could be “a transparent expression of ignorance, of hubris and purposeful subterfuge”.
Different celebrities to criticise Trump amid his second time period embody Robert De Niro, who urged Individuals to “maintain preventing” the president. “There’s no different technique to face a bully”, he remarked. “It’s a must to face him and struggle it out.”
Bruce Springsteen has additionally publicly criticised Trump on a number of events, calling for him to be impeached, and including that he must be “consigned to the trash heap of historical past”.
Elsewhere, the White Home responded to the scathing new poem ‘Little Inexperienced Worm’, written by Joan Baez about Trump, and Neil Younger shared a tune criticising Trump known as ‘Large Crime’, the place he hit out on the Republican occasion chief, and he additionally advised his followers earlier this 12 months that Trump was “uncontrolled” and “we want an actual president”.
