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Like I've said before, these hilarious stories keep writing themselves. 
Tens of thousands of trees in the heart of the Amazon rainforest have been wiped out to prepare for a global summit on saving the environment.
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump slammed the creation of a multi-lane highway that tore straight through the ancient rainforest for this month's COP30 climate summit.
Approximately 100,000 trees across eight miles have been removed to ferry 50,000 world leaders, climate change activists, journalists, and other high-profile guests to the conference in Belém, Brazil.
'They ripped the hell out of the Rainforest of Brazil to build a four-lane highway for Environmentalists to travel. It's become a big scandal!' Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday.
While the White House has not sent a formal delegation to the event, which began on Monday, several left-leaning US officials, including California Governor Gavin Newsom and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, will be in Brazil.
White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said the president would 'not jeopardize our country's economic and national security to pursue vague climate goals that are killing other countries'.
Meanwhile, outrage over the bulldozing of the Amazon has been flooding into social media, with both climate advocates and skeptics pointing out the hypocrisy of cutting down thousands of trees for cars to reach a summit discussing deforestation.
Canadian climate activist Mike Hudema wrote on X: 'You can't be a climate leader if you're cutting down one of the world's greatest climate solutions to do it.'
Outrage as Rainforest is cleared of 100,000 trees for climate summit
Outrage as Amazon Rainforest is cleared of 100,000 trees to make way for climate summit
Tens of thousands of trees in the heart of the Amazon rainforest have been wiped out to prepare for a global summit on saving the environment.
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump slammed the creation of a multi-lane highway that tore straight through the ancient rainforest for this month's COP30 climate summit.
Approximately 100,000 trees across eight miles have been removed to ferry 50,000 world leaders, climate change activists, journalists, and other high-profile guests to the conference in Belém, Brazil.
'They ripped the hell out of the Rainforest of Brazil to build a four-lane highway for Environmentalists to travel. It's become a big scandal!' Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday.
While the White House has not sent a formal delegation to the event, which began on Monday, several left-leaning US officials, including California Governor Gavin Newsom and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, will be in Brazil.
White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said the president would 'not jeopardize our country's economic and national security to pursue vague climate goals that are killing other countries'.
Meanwhile, outrage over the bulldozing of the Amazon has been flooding into social media, with both climate advocates and skeptics pointing out the hypocrisy of cutting down thousands of trees for cars to reach a summit discussing deforestation.
Canadian climate activist Mike Hudema wrote on X: 'You can't be a climate leader if you're cutting down one of the world's greatest climate solutions to do it.'
Outrage as Rainforest is cleared of 100,000 trees for climate summit
