Harrison Ford has eviscerated Donald Trump again over his climate policy – despite owning a carbon-emitting private jet himself.
In an interview with The Guardian, the Indiana Jones actor, 83, said Trump’s dismantling of efforts tackling the climate crisis ‘scares the s**t out’ of him – and said he was unaware of any other ‘greater criminal in history’ than the president.
Ford, a staunch advocate for the environment who also owns a Cessna Citation Sovereign, told the publication that Trump ‘doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the s**t out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.
‘It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history,’ he added.
The president has long been a skeptic of government programs attempting to solve the issue and even declared it a hoax.
Trump, 79, began his second term less than a year ago but has already cut funding to clean energy projects, encouraged fossil fuels, and put over 1,000 EPA employees – including scientists involved in climate change research policy – on immediate notice, among other actions.
Harrison Ford has eviscerated Donald Trump again over his handling of the climate crisis – despite owning a private jet himself; pictured 2010
Ford eviscerated Trump again in an interview with The Guardian, saying his handling of the climate crisis ‘scares the s**t’ out of him
Trump has also encouraged the UK to do more oil drilling and remove their ‘ugly’ wind turbines, according to The Guardian.
Addressing the wind turbine issue, Ford told the outlet Trump was averse to them as ‘he has just not seen a gold one’.
The actor also blasted how the president’s handling of the climate crisis will be remembered by history, describing it as a ‘a clear expression of ignorance, of hubris and purposeful subterfuge.’
Ford is optimistic Trump’s hopes for a fossil-fuel led future would not pull through, with the publication noting the world is leaning into cleaner sources of energy, if slowly.
‘He’s losing ground because everything he says is a lie,’ he told The Guardian. ‘I’m confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies.
‘But we have to develop the political will and intellectual sophistication to realize that we human beings are capable of change. We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive. If we concentrate on a problem we can fix it most times.’
Before taking office again, Trump promised to bulldoze many environmental policies that he said were wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars and would instead open up protected lands to oil and gas drilling to boost the economy.
In his first day back in office, the White House announced plans to withdraw from the Paris climate deal – years after Trump first withdrew from the arrangement in a move that was subsequently reversed by Biden.
Just two months ago, Trump branded climate change ‘the greatest con job in the world’ during his address to the United Nations General Assembly, lashing out at countries for pursuing net zero emissions goals.
Ford spoke with the publication ahead of receiving the E.O. Wilson Legacy Award for Transformative Conservation Leadership in Chicago last Wednesday; pictured
Ford’s passion for flight is not exactly eco-friendly
Ford comments with The Guardian came ahead of him receiving the E.O. Wilson Legacy Award for Transformative Conservation Leadership in Chicago last Wednesday.
While Ford has been an advocate for the environment, his mode of travel may not exactly be the most eco-friendly.
In 2022, Fox News reported that Ford had already made at least eight trips on his private jet, traveling an approximate 5,284 miles in less than two months. The trips reportedly emitted around 35 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
In that time frame, the aircraft had released more carbon into the environment than the everyday American releases in two years, the publication noted. During that period, the jet had also released more carbon than the typical person worldwide emits every nine years.
The Indiana Jones actor, pictured with friend Robert Patrick in 2025, owns a Cessna Citation Sovereign that reportedly emitted 35 metric tons of carbon dioxide during a two month span in 2022
Ford had previously branded Donald Trump a ‘son of a b****’ while appearing on The Jimmy Kimmel show in 2020 and spoke out about his views on global warming.
He also said in 2017: ‘We face an unprecedented moment in this country. Today’s greatest threat is not climate change, not pollution, not flood or fire.
‘It’s that we’ve got people in charge of important s*** who don’t believe in science.’
Last year, Ford was among the many celebrities endorsing Kamala Harris for president against Trump.
