California Governor Newsom slams 'wrecking ball president' Trump at COP30 in Brazil

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Governor of California Gavin Newsom attends a press conference during the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil.
64% : In touting California as an innovator in clean energy initiatives, Newsom cited Republican leaders from the state, including Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, as spearheading efforts to reduce water and air pollution.
46% : One of the most notable absences at this week's United Nations Climate Change Conference reflects the leadership of one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world: the United States.
40% : "All these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong," he said.
38% : While Trump has used tariffs on foreign imports as a tool to combat China's growing sway, Newsom maintained that, by stepping away from climate initiatives and clean energy technology, the US was losing ground economically.
37% : " Newsom's broadside against Trump briefly reached beyond his opposition to the Republican president's pro-fossil fuel policies.
22% : Legal experts have denounced the attacks as a form of extrajudicial killing, and leaders at the United Nations have called for an end to the military campaign as a violation of the UN Charter.
19% : Trump has been vocal in his opposition to emission-lowering policies, going so far as to claim that climate change is a "hoax" and a "con job", a position that disregards the scientific consensus linking fossil fuel usage to long-term effects on the global climate.
13% : At September's UN General Assembly, for instance, Trump asserted that countries around the world had been "devastated" by the "fake energy catastrophe".

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