After President Donald Trump mocked her on Twitter this week, former First Woman Michelle Obama had some encouraging words for 16-year-old local weather activist Greta Thunberg.
“Don’t let anyone dim your mild,” Obama, 55, tweeted to Thunberg, who on Wednesday was named TIME’s “Person of the Year.”
“Like the women I’ve met in Vietnam and everywhere in the world, you could have a lot to offer us all,” Obama continued. “Ignore the doubters and know that tens of millions of individuals are cheering you on.”
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.@GretaThunberg, don’t let anyone dim your mild. Like the women I’ve met in Vietnam and everywhere in the world, you will have a lot to supply us all. Ignore the doubters and know that hundreds of thousands of individuals are cheering you on.
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) December 13, 2019
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On Thursday morning President Trump, 73, tweeted that it was “so ridiculous” Greta had been honored by TIME.
“Greta must work on her Anger Administration drawback, then go to a very good old fashioned movie with a good friend!” he wrote. “Chill Greta, Chill!”
Thunberg responded by changing her Twitter bio: “A young person working on her anger management drawback. At present chilling and watching an excellent old fashioned movie with a good friend.”
So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Administration drawback, then go to a very good quaint film with a pal! Chill Greta, Chill! https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2019
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Obama has been in Vietnam this week with Today co-host Jenna Bush Hager and actress Julia Roberts promoting young ladies’s schooling, meeting with local educators and hearing stories from women who're pursuing their education.
On her trip to Asia this week, Obama stated the schooling mission is “my life’s work now … to keep traveling the world to point out what occurs once we give a woman an schooling.”
On At this time earlier this week, TIME Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal explained how they arrived at Greta as their individual of the yr.
“Her rise and affect has been actually extraordinary,” Felsenthal stated. “She was a solo protester with a hand-painted signal 14 months in the past. She’s now led hundreds of thousands of individuals around the globe, 150 nations, to behave on behalf of the planet.”
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First Woman Melania Trump, whose “Be Greatest” campaign for youngsters’s welfare consists of an anti-bullying platform, has not made a public statement about her husband’s feedback about Thunberg.
It isn’t the primary time President Trump has gone after the teenager.
Earlier this year, he sarcastically tweeted that Greta “looks like a very joyful younger woman wanting forward to a brilliant and fantastic future” in response to a video of the teenage climate activist chastising world leaders for their lacking effort on climate change.
Just like her delicate response on Thursday, Greta changed her Twitter bio on the time to read “a really pleased young woman wanting forward to a vibrant and fantastic future.”
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If anyone thinks that what I and the science are saying is advocating for a political view – then that claims extra about that individual than about me.
That being stated – some are definitely failing greater than others.— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 12, 2019
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President Trump has faced backlash on Twitter for attacking Greta.
A Swedish teenager who has turn into one of many international faces of the urgency and — in her phrases — woeful inadequacy of the world’s response to climate change, Greta made worldwide headlines throughout 2019, capped by her being named TIME’s individual of the yr.
Final yr, she started “hanging” from faculty to boost consciousness about climate change. That has impressed quite a few different such protests.
“I feel most individuals are still very unaware of how massive this disaster is,” Greta told PEOPLE earlier this year. “Right now, I've lots of people listening to what I'm saying,” she stated then, “so I'm utilizing that platform to try to achieve a change.”
She additionally despatched out a number of tweets Thursday defending her actions as an local weather activist towards claims that she’s a political figure.
“If anyone thinks that what I and the science are saying is advocating for a political view – then that says more about that individual than about me,” she wrote in a single. “That being stated – some are definitely failing greater than others.”
Src: Michelle Obama Tweets Support at Greta Thunberg After Trump's Twitter Mockery: 'Don't Let Anyone Dim Your Light'
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