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U.S. President Donald Trump claimed triumph connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025) implicit what helium called the "hoax" of clime change, aft billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said a warming satellite would not extremity civilization.
"I (WE!) conscionable won the War connected the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has yet admitted that helium was wholly WRONG connected the issue," Mr. Trump said connected his Truth Social platform.
"It took courageousness to bash so, and for that we are each grateful."
Microsoft co-founder Gates said successful a agelong memo this week that clime alteration "will not pb to humanity's demise," successful what was seen arsenic a large pivot by the 70-year-old.
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Mr. Gates added that portion clime alteration would person "serious" consequences, "people volition beryllium capable to unrecorded and thrive successful astir places connected Earth for the foreseeable future."
He argued that tackling planetary illness and poorness would alternatively assistance hole the planet's poorest for a warming world.
Mr. Gates acknowledged that critics whitethorn complaint him with hypocrisy due to the fact that of his important c footprint oregon reason the memo was a "sneaky mode of arguing that we shouldn't instrumentality clime alteration seriously."
But helium pointed to important advancement successful cutting emissions to date, and said helium was optimistic aboriginal exertion would bash truthful adjacent more.
Mr. Trump has been a semipermanent sceptic connected biology issues and trashed clime alteration arsenic the "greatest con occupation ever" successful an code to the UN General Assembly successful September.
The Republican has rolled backmost greenish policies since returning to powerfulness successful January, pursuing a victorious 2024 predetermination run that received hundreds of millions of dollars connected donations from Big Oil.
