US President Donald Trump on Thursday used the word “dirty” to describe air quality in India, language he has never used for a country that has been among America’s friends.
“Look at India, it’s disgusting,” Trump said during a heated exchange with his Democratic rival Joe Biden on the subject of the climate crisis and his decision to remove the United States from the Paris Agreement, during the second and final presidential debate in Nashville. . Tennessee.
“Look at China, how disgusting it is. Look at Russia, look – India, it’s so dirty, the air is dirty, ”said the US president, arguing his position on the climate crisis. “I took us out of the Paris agreement because we were going to have to spend billions of dollars and they treated us very unfairly when they put us there; they did us a great service, they were going to take our business away from us ”.
The US president has made a similar argument in the past, saying India and China got a sweeter deal under the Paris Agreement, but he hasn’t used this kind of language before for India.
The Republican president and his Democratic challenger faced their second and final presidential debate on Friday morning India time. Voting in the US ends November 3.
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