With more than 150 leaders present for the summit, all other leaders kept their remarks within the time limit, according to journalists present at the event.
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When the defense secretary failed to specifically answer the question, Zinke pressed again and asked, “Would you agree the imminent threat, the five-yard, five-meter threat – the most damaging threat facing us today – would be ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and the non-nation state terrorist activities?”
“I think one of the dumbest statements I’ve ever heard in politics, in the history of politics as I know it, which is pretty good, was Obama’s statement that our number one problem is global warming”, Trump said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “He actually is somewhat naïve, if you want to know the truth, beyond the incompetent part”.
The short ad, which demands “serious leadership” for America, takes footage from the president’s interview with BuzzFeed last February and edits it together with various news clips pertaining to ISIS.
In mid-November, Breitbart News documented 22 times Obama or members of his administration declared climate change a greater threat than radical Islamic terrorism.
The President reiterated that idea Monday, telling world leaders his visit this year to Alaska showed him global warming close up.
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“One of the enemies that we’ll be fighting at this conference is cynicism, the notion we can’t do anything about climate change”, he continued, seemingly undeterred by the regular interruptions over his speech. “Nobody mentions that. That’s like when you have something that you don’t want to do, you don’t mention it because you sort of don’t want to do it, you don’t want to talk about it”, he said. “I can guarantee you this, they aren’t worrying about climate change anymore, if they ever were”.
