The tech billionaire Bill Gates just admitted he was wrong all along about climate change and President Donald Trump couldn’t be anymore thrilled.
Trump proclaimed triumph in what he calls the battle against climate change alarmism on Wednesday after the Microsoft founder published a memo adopting a dramatically more measured stance on global warming.
The president celebrated Gates’ reversal as vindication of his long-held position that climate catastrophe predictions have been grossly exaggerated.
“I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
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"Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!"
Yet another issue the left lost on.… pic.twitter.com/lNz8i1SlKo
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 29, 2025
The president praised Gates for acknowledging his previous errors on the issue.
“Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue,” he stated. “It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!”
Gates, who has spent years championing aggressive climate policies and investing billions in green energy initiatives, released his pivot in a memo entitled “Three tough truths about climate.”
The document represents a significant departure from his previous apocalyptic warnings about rising temperatures.
The billionaire entrepreneur characterized the conventional climate change narrative in his opener.
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“In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us — just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures,” he wrote. “Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.”
Gates then came to a shocking conclusion. “Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong,” he added.
Rather than advocating for drastic carbon reduction measures, Gates suggested governments should “invest in cooling centers and better early warning systems for extreme heat and weather events.”
He projected optimism about humanity’s future, noting that people “will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.”
As Bill Gates looks for his words, he's known all along that climate change wasn't an existential threat to the world.pic.twitter.com/n8XuQ9Se2j
— General™️ (@TheGeneral_0) October 29, 2025
The tech mogul argued that global resources would be better allocated toward addressing poverty and disease rather than pursuing aggressive near-term emissions targets.
“The doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world,” Gates wrote.
He concluded his memo with a stunning assertion that redirects priorities away from climate activism.
“The biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been,” the billionaire stated.
In separate news Wednesday, Trump announced he has directed the Defense Department to immediately commence testing United States nuclear weapons on par with China and Russia.
“The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First Term in office.”
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"The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. This was… pic.twitter.com/yVur7OG1pP
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 30, 2025
“Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice!” he noted. “Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years.”
The president’s nuclear testing declaration came just hours before his scheduled face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, marking their first in-person encounter since 2019.
“We’re going to have a very successful meeting, I have no doubt,” Trump said while greeting Xi. “He’s a very tough negotiator.”
Trump offered complimentary remarks about the Chinese leader, calling him a “great leader of a great country.”
“And I think we’re going to have a fantastic relationship for a long period of time,” the president added.
Their meeting agenda was anticipated to center primarily on trade negotiations between the world’s two largest economies.
Prior to the Xi meeting, Trump announced on Wednesday that he and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung have substantially completed negotiations on a bilateral trade agreement.
“We made our deal, pretty much finalized it,” Trump told reporters during a dinner with Lee and other officials on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Gyeongju, South Korea.
“We discussed some other things to do with national security et cetera. And I think we came to a conclusion on a lot of very important items,” the president said.
South Korea committed to one of the most substantial investment packages in the agreement, pledging $350 billion in United States investments.
Trump and Lee reportedly structured these investments through two separate funds: a $200 billion general investment account to be funded through $20 billion annual installments, plus an additional $150 billion fund specifically designated for American shipbuilding investments.
Kim Yong-beom, an aide to President Lee, revealed Wednesday that the United States and South Korea will lower their reciprocal tariff rates from 25 percent to 15 percent as part of the agreement.
In a Truth Social post outlining the deal’s components, Trump also announced South Korea has committed to purchasing American oil and gas in “vast quantities.”
The president said South Korean businesses and companies agreed to investments in the United States exceeding $600 billion.
Trump characterized the military alliance between the two nations as “stronger than ever before,” and leveraging that relationship, he granted South Korea permission to construct a nuclear-powered submarine.
“South Korea will be building its Nuclear Powered Submarine in the Philadelphia Shipyards, right here in the good ol’ U.S.A. Shipbuilding in our Country will soon be making a BIG COMEBACK,” he posted on Truth Social.
Before arriving in South Korea for his diplomatic meetings, Trump suggested Wednesday he might collaborate with Democrats on developing an alternative to ObamaCare, indicating bipartisan cooperation could produce a “much better” healthcare option.
“We have to fix health care, because ObamaCare is a disaster,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
“When you see the increases in ObamaCare, it never worked. It never will work, and we can do something with the Democrats much better than ObamaCare,” he continued.
“Less money and better health care. And I think that’s something that could come out of this with the Democrats. We work with the Democrats.”
The president criticized rising premiums under the healthcare plan, also known as the Affordable Care Act, claiming insurance companies “are making a fortune.”
“I think it’s a great time for the Republicans and Democrats to get together and make something that will work, and let the insurance companies make money — they’re entitled to that, but not the kind of money that they’re making,” Trump said.
