Leonardo DiCaprio and the head of his foundation met Wednesday with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss how jobs centered on preserving the environment can boost the economy.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Terry Tamminen, the CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, confirmed the meeting at Trump Tower in New York City. Tamminen said the pair gave a presentation to Trump, daughter Ivanka, and other members of Trump’s team on how focusing on renewable, clean energy could create millions of jobs.
“Today, we presented the President-elect and his advisors with a framework — which LDF developed in consultation with leading voices in the fields of economics and environmentalism — that details how to unleash a major economic revival across the United States that is centered on investments in sustainable infrastructure,” Tamminen said. “Our conversation focused on how to create millions of secure, American jobs in the construction and operation of commercial and residential clean, renewable energy generation.”
The Oscar-winning actor has been a strong advocate of fighting climate change and preserving wildlife, and his recent documentary, “Before the Flood,” addresses the peril that the world faces because of climate change.
DiCaprio previously met with Ivanka Trump and presented her with a copy of the film.
The meeting with Trump’s team lasted for about 90 minutes. The actor also gave the president-elect a copy of the documentary, and Trump promised to watch it, according to a person who was familiar with the meeting but not authorized to speak publicly.
Tamminen, who was secretary of California’s Environmental Protection Agency under former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said Trump was receptive and suggested they meet again next month.
“We look forward to continuing the conversation with the incoming administration as we work to stop the dangerous march of climate change, while putting millions of people to work at the same time,” said Tamminen.
The meeting came after word got out Wednesday that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a climate-change denier whose policies have helped fossil fuel companies, is expected to be announced as Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Leonardo never did much for me
Don’t know why he even met with him. More important items are at hand and more important people to meet with.
Lynda: Right, why would Trump and his team waste any of their time with this spoiled, anti-Trump (if you remember DiCaprio’s anti-Trump / PRO Killery’s Advertisements during the campaign) Hollywood, whining, cry-baby sissy punk hack! Trump has much more important and serious issues to clean up from Obongoloid, Foreign Policies, our military, dumping ObamaCare, etc.etc.etc.etc. I hope Trump and his team ‘deep-six’ that stupid documentary film old Lee gave him and he never meets again with an anti-Trump wussy from Hollywood!
Daughter Ivanka has similar interests and beliefs, so don’t think this type of idealistic nonsense won’t raise it’s ugly head again.
Linda, you are absolutely right. There are more important people to meet by the President-Elect. Why he chose this actor who is in the pocket of Al Gore and is his lackey. If the meeting show positive outcome the success goes mostly to Leonardo, but if the meeting failed and no improvement in climate change scenario Trump will be blamed. Trump team should keep distance with the Hollywood Actors and those in show business because they have no principle and are not trustworthy.
WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR?
Leo is nice to look at but Americans want jobs! Can’t worry about a tree being cut down.
Really? I think Leo looks like a vampire and am sure he belongs to the vampirian spirit group!
The problem with some of these good ideas, is that they cost more to the taxpayers
than the benefit they provide. We the working Americans taxpayers pay billion to
Universities to research the benefits of technology, and don’t need their crony activist
preaching their worthless PC garbage rhetoric.
Funny, I can’t remember the last time I saw a green freak ride a horse to work, recycle their water, human waste or food, or live by candlelight.
One problem with the climate change bozos. Recently someone thought to examine Scotts 100 year old journels from his expedition to Antarctica. They showed recorded sea tempetures ,ice fields and ice pack measurements and glacier surveys. They data was compared with present day data. Little if any difference. The North pole ice sheet is receding.as it periodically has for millions of years. It always grows and shrinks. As the north pole is all floating ice ,iven it it melted entirely the volume of water would not raise sea levels by more than one and a half inches. Antarctica is losing some ice on its west side ,and increasing on its eastern side. The calving claciers and iceberg films so loved by the climate changers like De Caprio are alwas filmed on the west side. Conclusion,dont trust the liberal democrats,they lie .
decaprio? pfzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!
What is true?
There is the rub, money “grants”, when you control the printing press almost everyone has a price, and the opposite is true you can withhold money (benefits) and get things you want also, this United States-United States of America (all D & B trade marked names) of a foreign service for profit corporation would sell your grandmother if it could.
Have an old phone book lying around go to the blue pages for the listings of what they own, you wouldn’t find the IRS or the Federal Reserve, EPA or CIA.
These so call bastions of higher learning are just the 13th grade of fitting someone in their box of alleged facts, more like a mob of sheep keeping the other sheep in line.
As long as you go along with the program you have your grant, any thing that doesn’t fit their paradigm never see’s the light of day. Since day one some lazy untalented person observed how people around him worked and got things done and devised a scheme to siphon off that energy and control it for their benefit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50cB5yhKR98
I would have all the participants brought in by Leonardo, including him, checked out as to their investments in any environmental involved companies! I love him as an actor but think that he is way of on this!
Gore and climate change are Bull Shit –the flag in Antarctica sits on a tower and the ice has now reached near the top–there is no warming going on —if anything –it is getting colder–follow the $ with stinkin Gore and cronies like Dicrapio–Gore is greedy and want more so he can eat more and get fatter
President-Elect Trump,
Know you love Ivanka, but she has no science background. Al Gore is a fraud & Dicaprio, an actor, who pollutes riding around on his private jet creating pollution, should be quiet.
The liberal fanatics who chant ‘Climate Change’ are ignored. In addition, data has been proven to be false & manufactured…..remember the ‘famed hockey stick fraud’.
I hope Ivanka’s bleeding heart is not Donald’s Achilles’ heel. Everyone should watch the Climate Hustle documentary. Tell Leo that there will not be ANOTHER worldwide flood.
I thought Leo was one of the hollywood goofballs that was planning on heading North or South of our border if Trump won. A question for this phony “Why’d you change your mind?”
Your right LEO is a first class idiot when it come to Earth’s Globe is something he knows nothing whatsoever about, if he did he would know all scientific studies on climate proves the Globe temperature rises and falls as long as the Earth has exited. The entire North Pole Ice flow could melt and it would not change the ocean more then one (1) inch before it returned to ice again, read the real science for yourself, these actor’s have no focus, so they find some issue that will give them credibility as they nothing but acting school no real scientific knowledge, or facts about weather other then the local weather stations, as a pilot I have studied many subjects that dealt with the science of weather and how it effects the planet. LEO has not a snowball in hell chance of selling his knowledge of science outside the reading of lines for movies that deal with scripts not facts. There is a fact of science that proves that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) does not have any effect on the earths temperature, any real science student know this, facts about life and the earth are out of the reach of self inflated actors, they don’t know the difference between the scrips they read for their movies and reality and facts that maintains life on this planet. Bloated ego’s are not what counts when facts and science prove they are wrong! Ego’s are the best they have to embrace, facts of life and reality are not actors long suit, they and their cohorts should stay with the script and act live in the fantasy world we all know is that just a fantasy that allows movie goers the be in less and less entertained, as because of lack of vocabulary does not exist among most so they use the F word over and over to fill in the blanks that so often their brain is full of, making them look, act and become what they are, shot on intellect long on FU or just FFF everyone but me. Sad bunch of wild idiotic nonsense and short on sense, and science.
The comment about climate and actors apparently used exit instead of exist and shot instead of short but the content of exit is appropriate as many view the creation as an exit from Heaven’s angels to earth, and short or shot depicts the intent as either they are short of knowledge of facts or shot as to facts. the F word is common place and is a big part of movie goers experience and does not used in an effective method to communicate unless you are not capable of proper expression, so Richard is right on. Perhaps not what the editor prefers as they have the right to deny free speech, yet protect those whose use of expression does not suit them. I am Richard and these are my thought provoked views of those who speak without knowledge of scientific facts, few science majors today speak out among those who have not indulged themselves in factual and historical knowledge of proven scientific and Biblical and other ancient writings which many depicts these facts as totally accurate based upon the past knowledge of the Nordic sailors and many other who witnessed these facts and did record same.
If renewable engery is so good then remove all the subsidies, federal and state, and see how private industry flocks to it. I’d bet not. I think wind and solar are good and I’ll install that stuff and encourge utilities to do the same – when it is affordable without the government’s help. As a matter of fact, or at least my opinion, government involvement puts a drag on the private sector’s ability to make profitable advances. i.e. get you damn hand out of my pocket! And I won’t be sticking my hand it yours.