Adults show lack of respect for teen activist

President Donald Trump responded to an impassioned plea to global leaders at the U.N. by 16-yearold climate activist Greta Thunberg with a sarcastic late-night tweet.

“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” Trump said on Twitter shortly after 11:30 p.m. Monday.

He attached a news account of Thunberg’s remarks in New York that highlighted a deeply pessimistic quote: “People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.”

California Rep. Eric Swalwell, a former Democratic presidential candidate, reacted with a tweet of his own early Tuesday.

“By rallying the world to save itself, she’d already make a better @POTUS than you,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, Fox News apologized for a guest’s “disgraceful” description of Thunberg as mentally ill but was silent Tuesday on star Laura Ingraham likening her to the murderous children from Stephen King’s story and 1984 film “Children of the Corn.”

In a Monday segment on Fox, Michael Knowles of “The Daily Wire” said Thunberg was a “mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and by the international left.” The network now says it has no plans to book Knowles again.

A couple of hours later, Ingraham referenced the King story that is about children in a Nebraska town being persuaded to kill the adults.

“I can’t wait for Stephen King’s sequel, ‘Children of the Climate,’” Ingraham said. Thunberg