Global warming activists briefly interrupted former President Donald Trump's stump speech Sunday in Indianola, Iowa, as the first-in-the-nation caucus was experiencing record-low temperatures.
"Thank you, darling," Trump responded to a young woman shouting at him during his rally, which aired live on Newsmax and simulcast on the Newsmax2 online streaming platform.
"Thank you. That's all right. Go home to mommy. Your mommy's waiting."
As the global warming alarmists were removed from the rally, Trump remarked seeing protests interrupting his rally was something that had not happened in years.
"It's amazing because that used to happen all of the time, and I don't think it's happened in 2½ or 3 years," Trump said as the crowd drowned out the protest with chants of "USA! USA!" "That's a fact. And she's so young. So young. So young and immature.
"It always is excitement. I will say that."
Trump said he supported a peaceful protest as a staple of American democracy.
"That's all right, that's why we have America," he said.
But Trump mocked the protesters shouting down oil and energy independence in the state of Iowa — and during freezing temperatures — of all of the time and places. Iowa is famously a farming state and Trump is strong on ethanol, a gasoline additive distilled from mashed and fermented grain.
"But they'll figure it out," Trump said. "You know they're fighting oil. They're fighting oil. They're basically saying, 'Let's close up our country,'" he continued. "Because, if you noticed, China is building, actually every week, a coal-fired plant and these people are fighting – and you're going to end up with a country that won't be able to compete if you listen to them."
The youthful ideology will eventually age out, Trump concluded.
"They'll grow up; they'll get older," Trump said. "It's very important what we're doing. We speak from common sense. You know, we're really the party of common sense.
"People say, 'Are you conservative?' Yes, I'm conservative. We did a lot of conservative things, but we're really not liberal or conservative, we're the party of common sense."
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