Greta Thunberg Did Not Say the Climate Crisis Doesn’t Exist

For the past few days, a video has been circulating of MSNBC reporter Mehdi Hasan interviewing environmental activist Greta Thunberg. In the clip, Hasan asks Thunberg what she would like for President Biden to do about the climate crisis. She appears to respond by saying, “I would just tell him to tell the situation as it is. Since the climate crisis doesn’t exist, how can we expect people to want climate action?”

The clip was originally posted by the Instagram account @republicanparty. “Greta says climate change doesn’t exist,” says the accompanying caption. “Freudian slip by Greta Thunberg? If anyone has kept up with her recently, she speaks out in a different way than she used to about [sic] Climate Change.”

It was viewed over 59,000 times and soon spread across multiple social media platforms. Some commenters claimed that this was proof she was an actress, a fraud, or a liar.