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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

Trump bashes ‘con job’ climate change during his UN speech and says ‘stupid people’ have cost countries by buying in

President Donald Trump decried climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, insisting countries step away from the “green scam.”

In a wide-ranging address Tuesday morning — without a working teleprompter — Trump quoted several U.N. officials’ years-long warnings about the impacts of climate change, before declaring it a “con job” believed by “stupid people.”

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