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🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In just one week, she inspired global protests, mean-mugged President Trump, and chastised world leaders at the United Nations. David Wallace-Wells, editor at New York magazine, explains the rise of Greta Thunberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This was a real banner week for President Donald Trump.
0:18.3	He spent most of it denying any wrongdoing, then released a White House record of himself
0:24.0	doing something that looked quite wrong, then he casually praised how, in another time,
0:29.6	the people who complained about his wrongdoing might have been executed.
0:34.4	With all the whistle blowing and impeachment talk, it's easy to forget that the president
0:39.5	also made fun of a 16-year-old girl this week.
0:43.8	We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales
0:51.2	of eternal economic growth.
0:53.5	How dare you!
0:57.7	He was thought to a tweet that contained a long clip of that speech, President Trump seemingly
1:03.2	mocked Tuneberg.
1:04.2	He tweeted the following.
1:05.2	He said she seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful
1:10.1	future.
1:11.4	So nice to see the president did.
1:13.9	And it wasn't just him.
1:14.9	Laura Ingram at Fox News compared Greta Tuneberg to children of the corn.
1:20.0	I can't wait for Stephen King's sequel, Children of the Climate.
1:24.0	And a guest on another Fox News show just…
1:28.0	Well…
1:29.8	But none of that matters because the climate hysteria movement is not about science.
1:34.4	If it were about science, it would be led by scientists rather than by politicians and
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