Jane Fonda says she feels 'sad' for Trump
Actress and environmental activist Jane Fonda said Saturday that she feels “sad” for President TrumpDonald John TrumpJane Fonda says she feels ‘sad’ for Trump Bloomberg vows not to take campaign donations, presidential salary Biden reveals four women he could pick as his running mate MORE and said that he is “in bed with the fossil fuel industry.”
“I don’t hate him. I feel sad for him,” Fonda said of Trump in a CNN interview. “And what he’s doing to the world … is just criminal. It’s just criminal. It’s terrible. But there’s more of us, and we can make a difference.”
Fonda has made headlines in recent weeks after being arrested in Washington while protesting inaction on climate change multiple times.
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She told CNN that when Trump was first elected, she wanted to get “a lot of very beautiful women who are very, very smart about climate” such as Pamela Anderson to show him the importance of the issue.
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“He’s a petroleum president,” Fonda said. “They are so in bed with the fossil fuel industry that there’s nothing that even Pamela Anderson could get out of Donald Trump.”
“I don’t hate him. I feel sad for him,” Jane Fonda said about President Trump to @VanJones68. “And what he’s doing to the world…is just criminal.”
Watch the full interview on “The Van Jones Show” at 7 p.m. ET on CNN. https://t.co/e8MTiT7X1w pic.twitter.com/eW0ACce2eh
— CNN (@CNN) November 23, 2019
Trump this month commented on Fonda’s arrests at a rally.
“They arrested Jane Fonda, nothing changes. I remember 30, 40 years ago they arrested her,” he said. “She always has the handcuffs on, oh man. She’s waving to everybody with the handcuffs.”
Fonda has been critical of Trump in the past and compared him to Adolf Hitler last year.