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Saturday Night Live (SNL) parodied climate change activist Greta Thunberg on December 14’s episode.
During the cold open, Kate McKinnon burst on the scene, telling Aidy Bryant’s snowman, “My name is Greta Thunberg, and I also have a Christmas message: in 10 years, this snowman won’t exist! Her home will be a puddle! Santa, reindeer, the North Pole, all of it—gone! The ice caps will melt and the elves will drown!”
She finished, saying, “So merry-maybe-our-last-Christmas to all. And Donald Trump: step to me and I’ll come at you like a plastic straw comes at a turtle. I can’t believe I’m saying this to a 70-year-old man, but grow up.”
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, Greta Thunberg, has said in the past that meeting with Trump to talk about climate change would be “a waste of time.” Trump has discredited climate change as a hoax. He has tweeted that he believed climate change was made up by the Chinese.
After Thunberg was named Person of the Year, Trump mocked her on Twitter. He said that she needed to “work on her Anger Management problem.” Brazilian President Bolsonaro called her a brat in response.
At the UN summit in September, Thunberg said to world leaders: “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about it money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth – how dare you?”
