U.S. President Donald Trump, in his United Nations General Assembly address, labeled climate change as "the greatest hoax perpetrated on the world" and urged world leaders to break free from the "green scam."
In his Sept. 23 (local time) speech at U.N. headquarters in New York, President Trump said, "Whether temperatures go up or down, whatever happens is called climate change," adding, "A U.N. official said in 1989 that 'within 10 years, countries could disappear from the map due to global warming,' but reality was different. In the 1920s and 1930s, they said global cooling would destroy the world."
He also said, "The carbon footprint is a hoax invented by people with malicious intent," adding, "If we follow this path, it will lead to complete ruin."
Trump went on to issue a stern warning to world leaders gathered at the U.N. General Assembly, saying, "If you do not break free from this 'green scam,' your countries will fail."