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Trump Trolls Greta Thunberg; Greta Swipes Back

John Bickley
Trump Trolls Greta Thunberg; Greta Swipes Back
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On Monday, climate change activist Greta Thunberg gave a much-publicized speech in front of the United Nations in which she chastised world leaders for supposedly bringing us to “the beginning of a mass extinction.”

While Thunberg’s alarmist speech was widely praised by the Left, it was met with widespread backlash from the Right. Many critics blasted the use of children as “human shields” in political debates and condemned the climate fear-mongering that has so clearly terrified the 16-year-old — who has been formally diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome coupled with high-functioning autism and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) — as a form of “child abuse.”

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