Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s climate policies “scare the shit” out of him.
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The actor said in a new interview with the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me.”
“The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy,” he continued. “[Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.”
“It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history,” Ford added. It comes amid the US President’s ongoing dismantling of climate and clean air protections since he took office again in January.
So far during his second term, he’s halted clean energy projects, banned mentions of “climate change” and “emissions” within government and withdrawn the US from the Paris climate deal.
During a speech to the United Nations last month, Trump referred to climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”, and added: “If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail. You need strong borders and traditional energy sources if you are going to be great again.”
Ford, a longtime environmental advocate, said Trump’s dislike of wind turbines was because “he has just not seen a gold one” and that the president’s legacy on the climate crisis would be “a clear expression of ignorance, of hubris and purposeful subterfuge”.
Other celebrities to criticise Trump amid his second term include Robert De Niro, who urged Americans to “keep fighting” the president. “There’s no other way to face a bully”, he remarked. “You have to face him and fight it out.”
Bruce Springsteen has also publicly criticised Trump on multiple occasions, calling for him to be impeached, and adding that he should be “consigned to the trash heap of history”.
Elsewhere, the White House responded to the scathing new poem ‘Little Green Worm’, written by Joan Baez about Trump, and Neil Young shared a song criticising Trump called ‘Big Crime’, where he hit out at the Republican party leader, and he also told his fans earlier this year that Trump was “out of control” and “we need a real president”.