In spite of the fact that he would attack a toddler if he felt threatened, in spite of the fact that he has attacked a grieving war widow, in spite of the fact that his face alone should be the basis for a Mount Rushmore of Assholes, perhaps you still held on to one infinitesimal shred of hope. Maybe, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, you still believed that Donald Trump wouldn’t sink so low as to mock a 16-year-old shortly after she gave an impassioned, pleading speech calling out world leaders for not even doing the bare minimum to address climate change, dooming her generation to a world of extreme weather, dire living conditions, and unpredictable disaster. But of course, you would be entirely wrong, and have learned a valuable lesson about where Trump ranks on the pond-scum-to-raw-sewage scale:

Just to be clear, that’s the president of the United States ridiculing Swedish activist Greta Thunberg for having the audacity to tell people like him that “we are in the beginning of a mass extinction,” to shame them for having “stolen my dreams, my childhood, with your empty words,” and to ask, “How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just business as usual and some technical solutions?”

Thunberg, of course, is an affront to the president not only because she cares about the planet, but because she doesn’t act the way he thinks nice young girls should, i.e. smiling, being agreeable, and entering beauty pageants to be harassed by creepy real estate developers. In Trump’s mind, it’s a slippery slope between being a teen girl who devotes her life to pushing leaders to do something about the coming apocalypse and becoming a “nasty” woman!

Luckily, it appears as though Thunberg has both a thicker skin and a better sense of humor than Trump (who, to be fair, has neither):

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