Donald Trump’s “sleepy Joe Biden” sledge is back after the US President shut his eyes for an extended period at the Glasgow climate summit.
The “sleepy Joe Biden” sledge has re-emerged during the United Nations’ climate change convention in Glasgow, with the American President appearing to fall asleep.
The 78-year-old was repeatedly mocked by former American president Donald Trump during the pair’s campaign to win the presidency in 2020 as “sleepy Joe Biden”.
So when footage emerged from the COP26 summit in Glasgow showing Mr Biden appearing to nod off for 20 seconds during proceedings, naturally Mr Trump pounced.
“Even Biden couldn’t stand hearing so much about the Global Warming Hoax, the 7th biggest hoax in America,” Mr Biden’s beaten 2020 opponent said in a statement. He went on to list several other supposed “hoaxes”, such as his own election defeat.
Mr Trump lost the 2020 electoral college vote 306-232, and lost the popular vote by approximately seven million ballots to Mr Biden.
“Biden went to Europe saying Global Warming is his highest priority, and then promptly fell asleep for all the world to see, at the conference itself. Nobody that has true enthusiasm and belief in a subject will ever fall asleep,” he added.
But Mr Trump wasn’t the only one to notice the moment. Even the BBC wondered whether Mr Biden was “asleep or just resting his eyes”.
Mr Trump’s comments about the “Global Warming Hoax” come as Twitter and Facebook have launched new programs to quell climate misinformation.
The Washington Post’s politics reporter Zach Purser Brown was the first to publish the video of Mr Biden with his eyes shut.
The President can be seen blinking repeatedly before closing his eyes for about 30 seconds.
As one of his staffers moves over to him, he reopens his eyes.
By Monday afternoon, the post was retweeted nearly 15,000 times.
It comes as world leaders meeting at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow will on Tuesday issue a multibillion-dollar pledge to end deforestation by 2030 but that date is too distant for campaigners who want action sooner to save the planet’s lungs.
According to summit hosts the British government, the pledge is backed by almost $20 billion in public and private funding and is endorsed by more than 100 leaders representing over 85 percent of the world’s forests, including the Amazon rainforest, Canada’s northern boreal forest and the Congo Basin rainforest.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the agreement on deforestation was pivotal to the overarching ambition of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“These great teeming ecosystems — these cathedrals of nature — are the lungs of our planet,” he was expected to say in Glasgow, according to Downing Street.
“Forests support communities, livelihoods and food supply, and absorb the carbon we pump into the atmosphere. They are essential to our very survival,” said Johnson, who is chairing the summit.
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