Rep. Kathleen Rice Kathleen Maura RiceLeading House Democrat: Franken and Conyers should resign FBI trying to ‘get in front’ of future threats of Russian interference, director says Conyers saga brings Dem tensions to a boil MORE (D-N.Y.) ripped President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for ‘serious case of amnesia’ after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don’t want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE Thursday for his tweet saying the US could use some “good old global warming” during a record-setting bout of cold weather.
“Instead of tweeting like a child who hates science class, if you're so worried about the cold you could always send your 45M+ followers info about how to find shelter, prevent hypothermia & frost bite, prevent pipes from freezing, protect their pets, etc,” Rice tweeted.
Rice also slammed Trump for tweeting from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
“Not even to mention the fact that you are in Florida. At your country club. Where you played golf today. Again,” she said. “There are people all over America who will sleep outside tonight because they have no warm place to go.”
Instead of tweeting like a child who hates science class, if you're so worried about the cold you could always send your 45M+ followers info about how to find shelter, prevent hypothermia & frost bite, prevent pipes from freezing, protect their pets, etc. https://t.co/HXBotuGZ5f — Kathleen Rice (@RepKathleenRice) December 29, 2017
Not even to mention the fact that you are in Florida. At your country club. Where you played golf today. Again. There are people all over America who will sleep outside tonight because they have no warm place to go. https://t.co/djV9y2SGfn — Kathleen Rice (@RepKathleenRice) December 29, 2017
Earlier Thursday, Trump tweeted about the cold weather blasting much of the US, saying the country needed “a little bit of that good old Global Warming.”
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017
Large swaths of the US are expected to see record-breaking cold temperatures over New Year’s weekend, with some areas expected to have low temperatures in the negative 40s.
Much of the Northeast is also facing wind chill advisories over the weekend, with wind chills in New England expected to measure between 20 and 40 degrees below zero.
Trump has denied that global warming exists in the past, claiming it was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
In June, Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement, a worldwide pact to cut back on carbon emissions in order to reduce global warming, leaving the US as the sole nation opposed to the pact.
jonstew on December 29th, 2017 at 02:57 UTC »
Ivy League schools should stop taking in people based on their donation and call it the trump rule.
selkiesoul on December 29th, 2017 at 02:42 UTC »
If we ever get through this era of Trump I feel like laws need to be passed against blatantly lying to the public. I know things like laws and morals don't seem to faze this man but for goodness sake we need to start somewhere.
pomo on December 29th, 2017 at 02:30 UTC »
And this is one more reason the problem should be strictly called "climate change" rather than "global warming" - the idiots of the world, like Mr Trump, think that an incidence of cold (record breaking cold, for that matter) is proof that "global warming" is not happening. The extreme cold events are also caused by man-made climate change.