COP30: The Trump-Hate Circus in the Amazon – Where Socialist Strongmen Preach the Climate Grift from Private Jets, By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Belém, Brazil – the steamy gateway to the Amazon – was supposed to be ground zero for saving the planet. Instead, COP30 devolved into a three-ring circus of Trump-bashing, with a cast of socialist dictators and virtue-signalling elites turning the UN's climate confab into a therapy session for their bruised egos. No high-level U.S. delegation? No problem – just blame Donald J. Trump, the man who dared call their "greatest con job ever" for what it is. While the world's biggest polluters (China, India, and yes, the U.S.) skipped the show, Latin American Leftists like Colombia's Gustavo Petro and Chile's Gabriel Boric seized the mic to fume about Trump's "lies" and "anti-humanity" stance. Absent? Any mention of their own carbon-spewing hypocrisy. Welcome to the climate scam's latest chapter: A hate-fest for the Orange Man Bad, bankrolled by elites who jet in on fossil fuels while bulldozing rainforests for parking.
This wasn't diplomacy; it was deflection. With real progress stalled – no new finance pledges, no emissions cuts from the Global South – the summit's stars pivoted to personal vendettas. Trump's September 2025 UN smackdown, where he eviscerated the climate movement as a "con job" peddled by "stupid people" costing nations fortunes, still stings. No wonder: He's the one leader not buying the narrative that trillions in green grift will "save" us from a crisis that's been "worse than we thought" since Al Gore's 2006 flop.
Day one in Belém was a Trump roast without the laughs. Petro, fresh off U.S. sanctions for his regime's antics, thundered: "Mr. Trump is against humanity. His absence here demonstrates that." Boric piled on: "The president of the United States... said the climate crisis does not exist. That is a lie." Brazil's own Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the summit's host and a fossil-fuel fanboy (more on that later), took the subtle route: "Extremist forces that fabricate fake news and are condemning future generations to life on a planet altered forever by global warming." Translation: Trump's the extremist, not the guy greenlighting Amazon oil fields.
Even the Brits got in: Keir Starmer whined about lost "unity" and "consensus," without naming names – but we all know who broke the circle. Frenchie Emmanuel Macron called climate "misinformation" a threat to democracy – ironic, given his own yellow-vest crackdowns. And UN chief António Guterres? He beamed in virtually to warn of "moral failure," because nothing says "save the planet" like skipping the emissions-heavy flight.
X lit up with the absurdity. One user quipped: "Petro calls Trump 'anti-humanity' while his country burns through oil subsidies. Classic." Another: "Trump skips COP30 to focus on real energy deals in Athens. Meanwhile, these clowns bulldoze the Amazon for their limo highway." The hate was palpable – and pointless. With no U.S. brass, the summit felt like a family reunion where the rich uncle didn't show, so everyone trashed his will.
Here's the BBC's awkward truth bomb: China and India, the planet's emission hogs (35% and 7% of globals, vs. U.S. 13%), sent no top dogs either. Xi Jinping? Busy building coal plants. Narendra Modi? Prioritising India's industrial boom. The Global South, which both court, won't kneecap growth for Western guilt trips. Yet, somehow, Trump's the bogeyman derailing "unity."
Why the selective outrage? Because Trump threatens their scam. He's yanking the U.S. from Paris again, slashing green subsidies, and ramping LNG exports – undercutting the narrative that fossil fuels are evil (except when funding their regimes). These "socialist dictators" – Petro's eco-Marxism, Boric's student-radical redux, Lula's PT machine – profit from climate hysteria: Trillions in "reparations" from the West, funnelled through corrupt bureaucracies to cronies. Trump's absence? A slap to their slush fund.
X users nailed it: "COP30: Where leaders fly private to lecture on emissions, then blame Trump for no-show. China laughs from the coal mine." Another: "Petro calls Trump anti-human while Colombia's elite hoard while the poor starve. Grift level: Expert."
Nothing screams "do as I say" like COP's carbon footprint. Thousands jetted in, guzzling 500+ tons of fuel – equivalent to 1,000 average households' yearly emissions. Teleconference? "Bad Wi-Fi," they mumbled – the same excuse as 2020's COVID virtue-signallers.
Peak absurdity: To ferry these hypocrites, organisers bulldozed a chunk of Amazon rainforest for a VIP highway – displacing acai farmers whose livelihoods depend on those trees. Lula, the "Amazon saviour," signed off. Green groups slammed Brazil for new oil/gas fields pre-summit. Meanwhile, Trump's Energy Secretary Chris Wright, schmoozing LNG deals in Athens, called COP a "hoax" focused on "scaring children and growing government power." White House aide Taylor Rogers: No "vague climate goals" jeopardising U.S. security.
Wright's eyeing COP31 "to deliver common sense" – because someone has to.
COP30's Trump fixation isn't about climate; it's about control. These leaders – many clinging to power via populist eco-rhetoric – need a villain to rally the flock. Trump's exposing the emperor's new clothes: Failed predictions (no more ice caps by 2014? Check), trillion-dollar funds vanishing into thin air, and "solutions" like windmills that freeze in blizzards. The scam sustains bloated UN bureaucracies, green subsidies for connected insiders, and virtue-signals for the Davos crowd.
Without Trump, who'd fund the next round of "reparations"? Petro's "economy of life"? Boric's lithium mines? Lula's oil bonanza? Their fury masks fear: A U.S. energy boom under Trump (LNG to Europe, Ukraine) undercuts their monopoly on "moral" fossil fuels.
U.S. activists are crashing the party without Uncle Sam: Governors, mayors, and NGOs vowing "Trump doesn't represent us." Cute – but irrelevant. Real power's in D.C., not Belém's echo chamber.
The White House fired back Friday: COP's a "wasteful" sideshow, not human-focused. Wright's Athens trip? Boosting U.S. LNG to wean Europe off Russian gas – actual security, zero sanctimony. Trump's strategy: Let the socialists scream while America drills, exports, and thrives.
COP30 ends November 21 with the usual platitudes: More money, less scrutiny. But Trump's absence echoes louder than their jets. He's not buying the climate scam, and neither should we.
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