Harrison Ford sharply criticized former President Donald Trump in a recent interview with The Guardian, calling him the “greatest criminal in history” for his failure to address climate change.
The Indiana Jones star accused Trump of prioritizing personal gain over global well-being, saying the former president “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims.” Ford added, “It scares the s— out of me. 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.”
He continued, “It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”
Ford, 83, said Trump is “losing ground because everything he says is a lie,” and dismissed the president’s “drill, baby, drill” stance. The actor expressed optimism that humanity can still act in time to curb climate change: “I’m confident we can mitigate against it, that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies. 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.”
When discussing renewable energy, Ford quipped that Trump’s disdain for wind turbines likely comes from the fact that “he has just not seen a gold one.”
Trump has repeatedly disparaged wind turbines as “ugly” and even urged the United Kingdom to “get rid of the windmills and bring back the oil” during a European visit earlier this year.
The former president’s administration also canceled what would have been one of the largest land-based wind farms in the U.S., following a push for approval from former President Joe Biden in his final weeks in office.
Ford, a longtime environmental advocate, has openly opposed Trump for years. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in 2024 in a recorded campaign message, stating, “The truth is this: Kamala Harris will protect your right to disagree with her about policies or ideas.”
In a separate July interview with Variety, Ford criticized Trump’s second term, lamenting that “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer,” which he said “isn’t right.”
“In politics and in life, you don’t always get what you want, but you get what you get, and you don’t get upset,” he told the outlet. “They teach us that in kindergarten, but they also teach you to fight for what you think is right.”
Reflecting on today’s social divisions, Ford added, “Now, because we’ve been disaggregated in this way, we’re having a hard time finding commonality. But if you look at the economy, you’ll figure out where the commonality is — it’s where it always was: Rich get richer, and poor get poorer. And that ain’t exactly right.”
