Donald Trump on Climate Hoax: Believes

The claim: Human-caused climate change is a hoax.

2013-12-30: “The con artists changed the name from GLOBAL WARMING to CLIMATE CHANGE when GLOBAL WARMING was no longer working and credibility was lost!” source
2014-02-05: “Smart that GLOBAL WARMING hoaxsters changed name to CLIMATE CHANGE! $$” source
2025-09-23: “carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they're heading down a path of total destruction.” source
2026-09-21: “The same people that said, “We’ll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming,” a name since “reborn” to Climate Change, because the Planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead, are the people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us, that robots are going to attack us, and everything is a DISASTER. This is more of a Hoax than even that of RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE…” source
2026-09-26: “A MUST SEE ON THE CLIMATE HOAX.” source