Actor Harrison Ford on Friday blasted President Trump over his lack of policies toward combatting climate change, suggesting that the president has “whims” instead.
“It scares the s— out of me,” Ford told The Guardian. “The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.”
“It’s unbelievable,” the actor added. “I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”
Ford said he hoped Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” focus would not win, and added that the president is “losing ground because everything he says is a lie.”
“I’m confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies,” Ford continued. “But we have to develop the political will and intellectual sophistication to realize that we human beings are capable of change. We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive. If we concentrate on a problem we can fix it most times.”
Ford, known for his roles as Han Solo in the “Star Wars” saga and as the titular star of the “Indiana Jones” films, said Trump has a disdain for wind turbines because “he has just not seen a gold one.”
The Guardian’s interview with Ford occurred prior to his appearance at the Field Museum in Chicago on Wednesday. He was presented by the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, named after the late famed biologist, with a conservation award. The two were friends before Wilson’s death in 2021.
Ford has been a frequent Trump critic for years. Last year, the actor endorsed former Vice President Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
“The other guy [Trump], he demands unquestioning loyalty, says he wants revenge,” Ford said in the video for Harris and her vice presidential pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).
Also before the election, Ford’s “Air Force One” character, President James Marshall, polled strongest among fictional presidents theoretically stacked up against Trump and Harris in a National Research Group survey. So too did President Tom Beck, played by Morgan Freeman in “Deep Impact,” and President Thomas J. Whitmore, played by Bill Pullman in “Independence Day.”
