Greta Thunberg burst out laughing when she learnt that the climate movement Fridays for Future is still organising demonstrations.
The New York Post has launched a scathing attack on the climate activist, claiming she has now exposed the fraud behind her own moral authority.
– “Greta Thunberg has just revealed what a fraud she has always been, even though her devoted fans may be too intoxicated by ‘Kool-Aid’ to realise it,” writes the editorial team at the New York Post.
The newspaper refers to Thunberg’s appearance in the documentary ‘On Tanks into the Climate Crisis: How Activism is Criminalised’.
During filming, Thunberg learnt that Fridays for Future, the climate movement she founded in 2018, was still holding demonstrations, including one in Berlin that very same day.
“Is that true? Really? Are they still doing that?” she asked, before bursting out laughing.
The 23-year-old activist continued to laugh with a friend, before shouting: “Cut!”
Glorified a teenager with special needs
The New York Post then directs its criticism at the entire climate movement and the way Thunberg was held up as a role model.
According to the Post, it was “always indecent that the movement sounding the alarm about climate Armageddon fetishised a teenager with special needs as a sort of morally superior idol” when Thunberg launched her Fridays for Future protests in 2018.
She was 15 years old at the time and skipped school to stage a sit-down strike on her own outside the Swedish Parliament. Thunberg quickly became a favourite within the circles associated with Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise Movement.
She was also hailed for refusing to fly across the Atlantic in 2019. Instead she sailed to New York to speak at the UN Climate Summit. The New York Post points out that she was accompanied by a full crew, who subsequently flew back.
During the climate summit, she directed her famous outburst at world leaders: ‘How dare you?’ She accused them of having ‘stolen my dreams and my childhood with their empty words’.
The New York Post, however, places the blame on the adults around her: “Her real tormentors are, of course, the adults who tricked her into this role.”
From Joan of Arc to soup protests
The newspaper goes on to describe how Thunberg was elevated to the status of an international moral role model. – “They compared her to Joan of Arc and nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize,” writes the editorial team.
At the same time, climate activists carried out protests in which they threw soup at famous paintings and glued their hands to the tarmac.
The New York Post mocks the notion that Thunberg could intimidate the world’s most powerful politicians, whilst the activists “imagined that President Donald Trump was trembling with fear at the prospect of facing her Medusa-like stare”.
According to the newspaper, the climate cause became part of an economically devastating energy policy across the West, and advocates for global justice lost interest and turned their attention to Israel instead.
Thunberg followed suit.
The Post refers to her as “the attention-seeking Greta” and writes that she threw herself into a new type of protest.
The newspaper refers in particular to Thunberg’s participation in the Freedom Flotilla, which attempted to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza in June 2025. She then had to “endure the torture of being flown home with only non-vegan snacks to eat”.
“Will the poor souls who still carry out her old rituals wake up now that she has mocked them?” asks the New York Post, concluding:
– We’ll just have to see what the useful idiots on the environmental left do when their idols declare that they have served their purpose.
Newsmax presenter Rob Finnerty is perhaps even harsher in his criticism of Thunberg’s behaviour than the New York Post:
He compares her to Lord Farquaad from Shrek and describes her expression as ‘that creepy, free-free-Palestine, climate-change look’.
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