'A can of alphabet soup': Greta Thunberg trolls President Trump's communication skills on his birthday
Greta Thunberg reignited her long-dormant feud with President Donald Trump with a sharp-tongued birthday message, joking that her first instinct was to gift him a one-way ticket to The Hague—a likely nod to the International Criminal Court headquartered in the Dutch capital. In a piece for The Guardian, the climate activist said she settled instead on a can of alphabet soup, claiming it would produce more coherent sentences than Trump has managed in the past. "Now you can finally take part in meaningful public discourse," she quipped.
The 23-year-old was not the only climate voice to wish the President on his 80th birthday, which he marked by hosting a UFC event on the White House South Lawn. Bill McKibben, a noted environmentalist, mordantly remarked that there was no need to wage a "cruel, ridiculous war" to push the world towards wind and solar energy, referring to the rising gas prices due to the war in Iran. "But you do deserve one small gold trophy as electric vehicle salesman of the quarter," he concluded.
Even Trump's former communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, joined the pile-on that featured 10 voices, sharing a message he said he'd found outside Trump Tower, accusing Trump of trading his soul for the tower, the power, the money, and a name in gold, only to leave behind a trail leading straight to the ninth circle, the level of Hell reserved for traitors in Dante's Inferno.
Happy eight decades around the sun to America’s biggest loser, @realDonaldTrump! 🥳🎉
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) June 14, 2026
You can blow out the candles, but you can't wish away the damage.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who has a long-running feud with Trump, marked the occasion with a spoof of the President's infamous birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, swapping out the original drawing of a naked woman for what appears to be Trump's torso. The mock card read, "Happy 80th Donald! A pal is a wonderful thing,' echoing the language from the alleged Epstein letter, before signing off, "Happy birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret."
Thunberg's fresh salvo landed amid a wider wave of sarcastic birthday messages for Trump, who last year became the oldest sitting U.S. president in history at 78 years and 220 days old. The two locked horns first in 2019, when Trump reacted to Greta winning TIME's Person of the Year with unsolicited advice: "Greta must work on her Anger Management Problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!"
