Overview
- Ford said Trump’s assault on climate policy "scares the shit out of me," accusing the president of acting on "whims" and spreading "lies".
- Calling Trump "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history," Ford framed the critique as part of his decades of environmental advocacy.
- Coverage notes Trump’s second-term moves including a renewed Paris exit, halted clean-energy projects, firings of scientists, and restrictions on climate language, alongside his UN claim that climate change is "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world."
- The White House responded in comments to the Daily Beast, with spokesperson Taylor Rogers mocking Ford and dismissing what he called "climate hysteria."
- Ford cited his evacuation from Los Angeles wildfires this year as context for his alarm yet said he remains confident the world can mitigate climate change with political will and new technologies.