World leaders gathered in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 conference this week, turning the event into a platform for bashing President Donald Trump over his refusal to buy into their climate agenda. Trump skipped the summit entirely and sent no top officials, drawing sharp rebukes from several socialist figures who dominate the proceedings.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro led the charge. “Mr. Trump is against humanity. His absence here demonstrates that,” he declared.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric piled on, saying, “The president of the United States at the latest United Nations General Assembly said the climate crisis does not exist. That is a lie.”
Trump lambasted them at the UN in September, labeling the whole climate push “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” He went further: “Climate change, no matter what happens, you’re involved in that. No more global warming, no more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their country’s fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer avoided naming Trump but griped that the “unity” and “consensus” on climate matters had vanished. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva echoed the sentiment, blasting “extremist forces that fabricate fake news and are condemning future generations to life on a planet altered forever by global warming.” Lula also claimed Trump confided in him: “President Trump told me he doesn’t believe in green energy. He will believe in it, because he’ll realize that we don’t have much of an alternative.”
The summit reeks of double standards. While these elites preach sacrifice, they jetted in on fuel-guzzling planes, racking up massive carbon emissions. Organizers even cleared swaths of rainforest to pave a highway for their convoys, leaving local acai farmers in the dust. When pressed on why they didn’t just video conference—like everyone else has since the COVID days—they shrugged it off with excuses about spotty internet.
Adding to the farce, China and India, the planet’s top polluters, didn’t even show up. Yet the blame falls squarely on Trump for shattering the so-called consensus. These Global South heavyweights have made it plain they won’t hobble their economies for pie-in-the-sky green targets, exposing the whole affair as a power grab by bureaucrats eager to dictate energy policies worldwide.
Trump’s team isn’t taking it lying down. Energy Secretary Chris Wright slammed the conference from Athens, where he’s negotiating more U.S. natural gas exports to Europe and Ukraine.
“It’s essentially a hoax. It’s not an honest organization looking to better human lives,” Wright said. “Gatherings of global leaders and businesses should be about humans… not on the desire to scare children and grow government power. They’ve lost the plot.”
White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers reinforced the point: “President Trump will not jeopardize our country’s economic and national security to pursue vague climate goals that are killing other countries.”
This obsession with Trump reveals the real game—using climate fear to expand control, sideline American interests, and prop up failing regimes. As the U.S. focuses on real energy independence, the summit’s theatrics only confirm what many suspect: it’s less about the environment and more about reshaping the world order under a green facade.
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