Former Vice President Al Gore has just one word of advice for President Donald Trump: ‘Resign’.
Gore addressed the president while promoting his new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, a follow up to his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
The environmental activist has long been critical of Trump, particularly for his position on climate change and his decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement earlier this year.
Former Vice President Al Gore addressed Donald Trump while promoting his new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, and only gave the one word of advice to the president
When asked if he had any advice for the current president, Gore told Lad Bible, ‘Resign’ before turning the conversation back to climate change.
Just last week Gore said that Trump’s rejection of the Paris climate change agreement was fueling, rather than weakening, momentum among environmental activists.
He said governments and companies had stepped up since Trump’s decision in June to withdraw from the 2015 global pact.
‘The entire world the next day re-doubled their commitments to the Paris agreement and in the U.S, the governors of our largest states and hundreds of mayors, thousands of business leaders all stood up to fill the gap and said ‘We are still in the Paris agreement,’ Gore told Reuters.
‘I do think that the reaction to Donald Trump is actually driving much more momentum in the climate movement,’ he added.
The environmental activist has long been critical of Trump, particularly for his position on climate change
Gore previously said that he believes Trump’s presidency will end early because of ‘ethical reasons’
Gore previously said that he believes Trump’s presidency will end early because of ‘ethical reasons’.
‘We´re only six months into the experiment with Trump. Some experiments are ended early for ethical reasons,’ Gore said, acknowledging the ‘provocative’ nature of his comment.
Gore said he was convinced that US cities, states and business executives would meet US obligations under the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, despite Trump’s decision in June to withdraw from the global pact.
Gore’s new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, hit theaters across the world this summer
‘We can win this… All we need is the political will,’ he said, adding his hope that the United States would ‘soon once again’ have a leader who was committed to halting global warming.
Gore’s new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, argues that fighting climate change is a moral battle, on a par with the civil rights movement in the United States or the fight for gay rights.
‘We’re putting, still, 110 million tonnes of man-made global warming pollution into the sky every day,’ Gore told Lad Bible. ‘It’s a big planet but that’s an enormous amount of energy.
‘It’s driving temperatures up, warming up the oceans, disrupting the water cycles, melting the ice and affecting sea levels, moving tropical diseases further up north, creating droughts and disrupting agriculture.’
Shot mostly before Trump’s election, it also shows the Republican on the 2016 campaign trail promising to abolish environmental regulations and boost the coal and oil industries.
Gore said that that young people play a ‘key role’ in the climate change movement.
His first documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is credited with bringing climate change into mainstream political discourse in the United States a decade ago.
It won the best documentary Oscar in 2007 and helped propel Gore to a Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.