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Posted: 2019-09-24T13:33:53Z | Updated: 2019-09-24T17:43:40Z

President Donald Trump weighed in on Mondays now-viral United Nations climate change speech by teenage activist Greta Thunberg , mocking her tearful plea for world leaders to stop turning a blind eye to whats happening with the planet.

Hours after the 16-year-old delivered her impassioned address, Trump shared a tweet from Wired that quoted the Swedish teen: People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

The president, a climate change denier who has gutted environmental regulations to favor coal and oil companies, added his own sarcastic commentary on Thunberg: She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!

She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO

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She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019

Thunberg delivered her powerful speech Monday at the U.N. Climate Action Summit.

I shouldnt be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, said Thunberg, who sailed across the Atlantic to New York on a zero-emissions yacht to campaign for environmental action. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

Not long after Trumps tweet about Thunberg, Twitter users noticed shed made a small change to her bio on the social media platform. It now describes her as a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.