Former Vice President Al Gore has a message to President Donald Trump: “Resign.”
Gore, the former 2000 Democratic presidential candidate, sat down for an interview with LADBible and was asked right off the bat, “If you had to give Trump one piece of advice, what would it be?” He wasted no time in responding to the question with a resounding answer, calling on the president to quit less than seven months into his tenure.
The interview was part of a promotional tour for Gore, who has a new documentary, titled “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” out in theaters. It’s a follow-up to his successful 2006 documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
The new film documents Gore’s trips around the world in an effort to tech and influence climate change policy.
“I’m here to have an important conversation with you about the climate and how we can solve it,” Gore said during the interview. “Global warming, which I call the climate crisis, is by far and away the most serious crisis we face. We’re putting, still, 110 million tons of man-made global warming pollution into the sky everyday.”
While that was the basis of the conversation, his poignant response to the question about Trump highlighted the interview.
The strong words come over two months after Trump announced the United States would be leaving the Paris climate accord, a nonbinding agreement from a majority of the nations across the globe in an effort to fight pollution. The U.S. is one of just three countries that aren’t part of the agreement.
In an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in July, Gore said he completely gave up hope Trump would “come to his senses” to act on climate issues affecting the U.S. and the world.
Gore said after the 2016 election, he met with Trump at Trump Tower in New York City and “thought there was a chance (Trump) would come to his senses.”
“I was wrong,” he told Colbert.