Harrison Ford has given President Trump a new superlative: history’s greatest criminal. In a new interview with The Guardian, Ford, 83, said Trump, 79, “scares the s--t out of [him],” adding, “I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.” Ford was referencing the president’s attacks on climate change policy, which have included firing hundreds of climate researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement—twice. In September, the president called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” while speaking at the United Nations. Ford said those comments were “a clear expression of ignorance, of hubris and purposeful subterfuge” from a president who only dislikes wind turbines because he “just as not seen a gold one.”“He doesn’t have any policies, he has whims,” added the Indiana Jones star. Though Trump once praised Ford’s performance as President James Marshall in the 1997 blockbuster Air Force One, this is hardly the first time the Oscar nominee has bashed the president. In 2015, after then-candidate Trump told the New York Times that “Harrison Ford on the plane” was one of his favorite films, the actor publicly responded, “Donald, it was a movie. It’s not like this in real life, but how would you know?” In response to Ford’s comments, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told the Daily Beast, “Literally no one—not even Bill Gates—still believes that climate change is the catastrophic threat radical leftists have pretended it is for decades. Harrison Ford’s climate hysteria belongs in a museum!”
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