During a speech in Arizona, President Joe Biden told climate change hecklers to “shut up” and wait until after the talks.
Climate change protesters interrupted the president as he spoke at an event honoring the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at the Tempe Center for the Arts in Tempe on Thursday, prompting a declaration of a national emergency. requested.
“Why haven’t we declared a climate emergency yet?” a protester shouted. “Hundreds of Arizonans have died.”
The crowd responded by hushed and booed, but the president gestured calmly, saying, “Quiet.”
“If you just shut up, I’ll see you right after this,” the president said.
The crowd applauded the president’s remarks.
“As we just proved, democracy is never easy,” the president said.
Joe Biden is heckled by climate activists during speech on democracy in Arizona.
“If you just shut up, I’ll see you right after this, okay?” Biden said.
He resumed his speech and quipped, “As we have just proven, democracy is never easy.” pic.twitter.com/fDwXsaHexK
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Ironically, Joe Biden’s former boss, Barack Obama, experienced a similar moment when he was heckled by climate change extremists during a speech on health care.
“Mr. President, [inaudible] Keystone XL! Let’s stop climate change! For our generation! Stop the pipeline! ” the protesters said.
“That’s the wrong rally. We had a climate rally in the summer. This is a medical rally,” the former president responded.
Last year, the president encountered another heckler at a Labor Day event who responded that the president was a threat to democracy.
“Okay. God loves you. Let him go. Let him go,” Biden said.
“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don’t let him go. You know, everyone has the right to be stupid,” he said. continued. “We must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans and all those bastards are destroying it.”
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