-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email During a sweltering rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, June 9, former President Donald Trump complained to his supporters about "sweating like a dog" in the triple-digit heat. Because climate change is breaking temperature records all over the world , one might have assumed that the aspiring leader's next act would have been to express concern for the other people at his event. Instead the Florida man told the attendees — ostensibly as a joke — that they needed to stay alive just long enough to cast their ballots for him.
"We need every voter. I don't care about you, I just want your vote, I don't care," said Trump. Six people from the rally were later hospitalized for attending.
Related Turn up the heat: Climate change activists are gearing up for a sizzling summer of dissent One person who definitely did not laugh at Trump's joke is John Kerry. A former United States Senator, Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, Kerry's most recent job was as the first U.S.
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. A longtime environmentalist, it made perfect sense for President Joe Biden to tap Kerry for this role, especially as Kerry and his wife Theresa Heinz Kerry co-authored a determinedly optimistic book warning about climate change, " This Moment on Earth ." In the 2008 book, the Kerrys spoke with ordinary Americans from all walks of life about the differences they were making to protect the environment.
More than a deca.
