“President Trump is the biggest con job in American history,” said Nancy Pelosi , the US speaker emerita, to reporters on Thursday while criticizing his anti-climate agenda.

Donald Trump told the UN general assembly in September that the climate crisis was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”. But he was “projecting”, Pelosi said at a press conference. The meeting was convened by Democrats on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to comment on the US’s official absence from the United Nations Cop30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, where 195 countries are represented.

The Trump administration refused to send a US delegation to the annual talks – a first in the history of the summit – after pulling the country from the United Nations Paris Climate Accord

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