New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio dismissed Tucker Carlson’s accusations that the 2020 long shot candidate doesn’t really care about the environment because of the carbon footprint he makes merely going to the gym.
“How can you take an SUV to the gym and back every day and say you’re really worried about climate change?” Carlson asked.
“It’s a Chrysler Pacifica. It’s a Pacifica,” de Blasio said. “It’s a hybrid electric. It’s not an SUV, first of all. Look, I come from a neighborhood, I go back to my neighborhood all of the time. It’s the way, to me, that I stay connected to people, that I’m able to have a routine that allows me to be 24/7 the best mayor I can be.”
“But should the climate have to pay the cost for that?” Carlson asked.
“Oh, come on! It’s a few miles,” de Blasio said.
“‘Oh, come on’?” Carlson said, with a grin. “What do you mean, ‘Oh, come on’? I’m going to use that next time I get lectured about climate change: ‘Oh, come on!'”
De Blasio responded that his security cars are going to follow him no matter what, even if he takes the subway, so he’s just doing what he says he needs to do so that he can be the “best that I can be for this city.”
