Success Quote by Donald Trump

“Big scam” is the kind of phrase that doesn’t argue; it frames. Trump’s line is less a claim about atmospheric science than a narrative about power: somebody, somewhere, is running a hustle, and you’re the mark. The brilliance, politically, is its portability. It turns a sprawling, data-heavy issue into a street-level morality play about grift - a genre Trump understands and his audience instantly recognizes.

The intent is to reroute climate anxiety into class anger and institutional distrust. If climate change is “real,” then regulation, taxes, and international agreements follow; if it’s a “scam,” then all of that becomes not policy but predation. “A lot of people” is strategic vagueness: it invites listeners to supply their own villains (bureaucrats, academics, “globalists,” clean-energy investors) while keeping the speaker flexible. The line also inoculates against evidence. Any new report, grant, or corporate ESG push can be recast as proof of the con, not a rebuttal to it.

Context matters: Trump comes out of a business culture where “deal” and “rip-off” are primary moral categories. He’s also speaking into a media ecosystem primed by decades of anti-regulatory rhetoric and fossil-fuel-aligned messaging. The subtext is tribal: believing in climate change isn’t just an opinion; it’s a credential of the other side. Label it a money-making racket and you don’t have to win the scientific debate - you just have to win the suspicion.