A British climate change activist has attacked Donald Trump after the President-elect accidentally mentioned her in one of his tweets.
Ivanka Majic, an early Twitter adopter who nabbed the handle @Ivanka, told Trump to “spend more time learning about #climatechange” after getting caught up in a tweet meant to be about Ivanka Trump.
It was one of Trump’s idosyncratic “retweets”, where he posts a message from an obscure follower in quotation marks:
"@drgoodspine: @realDonaldTrump @Ivanka Trump is great, a woman with real character and class."
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2017
The message came in response to a CNN documentary on the soon-to-be First Daughter which aired on MLK day.
When she received the message – and a deluge of calls from British media asking how she would respond – Majic shot back with an infographic about climate change:
@realDonaldTrump @drgoodspine And you're a man with great responsibilities. May I suggest more care on Twitter and more time learning about #climatechange. pic.twitter.com/kBMEGZYtig
— Ivanka Majic (@ivanka) January 17, 2017
The message was an implicit criticism of Trump’s stance on the issue, about which he has expressed far more skepticism than most White House incumbents.
In her Twitter biography, Majic says she works for local government in Brighton and Hove, until recently the only body controlled by the Green Party.
She says she is often mistaken for the more famous Ivanka.
She also noted that she has links to Britain’s left-wing Labour party, and was an overseas Hillary Clinton supporter.
In an interview with the BBC, she said: “During the election I had a Twitter bot for everyone who accidentally mentioned me encouraging them to vote for Hillary”.
