A day after President Donald Trump announced that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin snarked about Trump’s actions while also speaking about climate change in general.
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, moderator Megyn Kelly asked Putin how he saw Trump’s withdrawal from the international climate accord. After slightly mocking Kelly for not reading the agreement, Putin went on to praise the climate deal.
“Generally speaking, the Paris treaty is a very good document which is aimed at resolving one of the global problems of the current times,” Putin said. “In order to deter the climatic changes — now the issue is whether we are in a position to allow the climate to change.”
The Russian leader followed that up by going full troll by joking that Russia was experiencing some cold weather so perhaps they should be thankful to Trump and America for helping to stop global warming.
“We don’t feel here that the temperature is going hotter,” he stated. “And I should say that we should be grateful to President Trump because today in Moscow, I hear they’re saying it snowed and it’s raining here, very cold, so now we can blame him for that and the American imperialism.”
Kelly will kick off her new NBC Sunday night news program with a Putin interview on June 4th.
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