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Trump slams climate change: ‘The greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’

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President Donald Trump expressed his disbelief in climate change at the United Nations General Assembly, calling it “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and that other countries would fail if they relied on clean energy.Sept. 23, 2025

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