President Donald Trump dismissed green policies and the risks of climate change during his address to the United Nations , describing the concept of a carbon footprint as a “hoax.”

During his first in-person appearance at the U.N. General Assembly since 2019, Trump criticized initiatives to mitigate the effects of climate change, saying countries that prioritize climate-related policies will fail and go bankrupt.

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“All green is all bankrupt,” Trump said Tuesday in New York City, later calling climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrat

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