Greta Thunberg says it would be 'waste of time' talking to Trump
Teenage eco-warrior Greta Thunberg tells Ellen DeGeneres it would be a ‘waste of time’ holding face-to-face talks with Trump ‘to help him understand climate change’
- Greta Thunberg made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres show in California
- The teenage activist said it would be a ‘waste of time’ meeting President Trump
- Thunberg said she couldn’t ‘look away anymore’ after reading about the climate
- DeGeneres paid tribute to eco-warrior and described her words as ‘real and raw’
Teenage eco-warrior Greta Thunberg told Ellen DeGeneres it would be a ‘waste of time’ holding face-to-face talks with Donald Trump.
The TV host described the 16-year-old as ‘real and raw’ during filming for her show in California today.
As she walked out on stage to David Bowie’s Heroes, the youngster looked overwrought by the studio audience.
DeGeneres asked the teen climate activist, who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, how she became so passionate about environmental causes.
She also asked Thunberg about President Trump’s tweet that mocked her speech to the UN in September and wondered whether the teenager would ‘sit down’ with him to ‘explain’ climate change.
Ellen DeGeneres asked teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg if she would meet with President Trump and discuss climate change
Thunberg replied: ‘I don’t understand why I would do that. I don’t see what I could tell him that he hasn’t already heard.
‘And I just think it would be a waste of time, really.’
The host went on to pay tribute to the Swedish schoolgirl, who inspired millions around the world to join her on strike.
DeGeneres asked Thunberg how she became so passionate about climate activism after learning about it at school.
She replied: ‘I just couldn’t really believe it, because if this was really true then surely someone must have done something, then surely we would take it seriously.
‘But no one took it seriously, so I started to read about it and of course the more I read about it and the more I understood and once I fully understood I couldn’t just look away anymore.’
Following Thunberg’s speech to the UN headquarters in New York, which she arrived at by sailing from Britain to the US in a yacht, Trump tweeted about her appearing to be ‘a very happy young girl’.
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg addressing the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters in September
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was seen throwing President Trump a ‘death stare’ as he entered the United Nations to speak with reporters in New York in September
When the US president arrived at the building to appear at another meeting, Thunberg was caught on camera shooting Trump a ‘death stare’.
Thunberg made international headlines when she inspired millions of people across 150 countries to take to the streets for the Global Strike 4 Climate on Friday.
Before the strike, the 16-year-old Swede addressed Congress and criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Change Agreement early in his tenure.
Thunberg made a stand against climate change in 2018 when she skipped school to stage a one-person demonstration outside Sweden’s parliament in Stockholm.
Her protest ignited a nationwide movement in Sweden thanks to social media and earned Thunberg a Nobel Prize nomination.
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