Gore’s advice for Trump: ‘Resign’
Al Gore says it’s time for President Donald Trump to leave office.
“Resign,” the former Democratic vice president told the website LADbible in an interviewpublished Thursday. He was asked what single piece of advice he’d give Trump.
Gore, who is currently on a promotional tour for his new movie, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power,” has been highly critical of Trump in recent interviews over the president’s moves to dismantle several high-profile Obama administration environmental policies.
“I thought, actually there was a chance he might come to his senses,” Gore said earlier this month during an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” referring to his own December visit to Trump Tower to meet with the president-elect on climate issues.
Since that pre-inauguration meeting, Trump has pulled the United States from the Paris international climate agreement and also moved to dismantle Environmental Protection Agency rules aimed at curbing greenhouse gases from power plants and automobiles.
During a July interview on NBC’s “Today” show, Gore said Trump had “undermined our alliances, such as NATO.”
“We’ve never had a president who’s deliberately made decisions the effect of which is to tear down America’s standing in the world,” Gore said.
Gore’s new film is a follow-up to his 2006 Oscar-winning original documentary, which featured the onetime Democratic presidential nominee delivering a slideshow presentation designed to raise awareness about climate change.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Gore’s advice to the president.