by Leslie Eastman
When President Trump took office for his second term, it was clear from the moment he started signing executive orders in the Oval Office that he had every intention of implementing his plans to reverse the Obama-Biden climate crisis agenda. Ending U.S. Participation in the Paris Climate Accord was a clear signal that he would double down on his agenda.
Trump then selected Chris Wright, the head of a fracking company, to head the Department of Energy (DOE). His team continued with the defunding of the Biden “Green New Deal” and the attempt to claw back funds that were distributed to eco-activists like “gold bars thrown from the Titanic“. The administration continued to halt wind farm projects, moved to rescind the destructive “endangerment finding” that essentially classified life-essential carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and prepared a far more reasonable national climate assessment that included more rational risk assessments and economic impact considerations.
In other words, Trump and his team have proceeded to make significant progress on the strategic destruction of the economically disastrous climate crisis agenda.
Green activist groups are now experiencing deep frustration, a sense of failure, and internal turmoil as their funding and agendas have been targeted by the executive branch…just as Trump promised during his campaign.
The movement is struggling with lower fundraising, membership challenges, staff layoffs, and internal divisions, differing from the first Trump term that saw surges of resistance-driven support.
Some groups, such as 350.org and Greenpeace USA, openly acknowledge that their previous strategies are failing, signaling a need for tactical reinvention as traditional methods of mass protest and lobbying have not yielded results in the current hostile political climate.
Unlike during Trump’s first term, when groups like the Sierra Club saw their membership and donations swell in resistance to the president, the green movement has struggled this year to generate a cohesive message. Some also face additional problems of their own: The 3.8-million-member Sierra Club, for example, fired its former executive director in August after years of internal feuding and multiple layoffs.
“A lot of climate groups weren’t up for round two of doing the same thing” they did during Trump’s first term, such as focusing on large, Washington-centric demonstrations, said Jamie Henn, founder and leader of the climate activist group Fossil Free Media. “I think it’s taken a while to figure out. People, admittedly, were in shock about what’s happening.”
“Now I think people realize we’ve got to buckle down and get ready for the long haul,” he added.
I would argue that part of the problem is that the COVID pandemic made people aware of how many scientific “experts” were simply narrative pushers. Climate change science is not more than pseudoscience, but on a much longer timescale than COVID. Americans are now unafraid of the hysteria the green activists and their media minions are trying to promote.
The response to Politico’s X-post grieving about this development underscores the fact that most people are done with the climate antics.
— Greg assault pistol Sandberg (@GregSandberg7) September 22, 2025
