Neil deGrasse Tyson Wants to Grab Trump by the Dick to Get His Attention on Science

Neil deGrasse Tyson wants the President-elect to start paying attention to actual science, and he has a sure-fire plan to make that happen.

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This year hasn't exactly been kind to anyone who favors reason over faith, facts over opinion, and humanity over outright cruelty. Just ask Earth, our slowly dying planet that's about to clock the hottest year on record. As the President-elect's White House team starts to fill out with one David Duke-approved white guy after another, the difficulty of the next four years in the battle for climate change becomes strikingly clear. But Neil deGrasse Tyson has a plan: Grab the President-elect by the dick.

"When I meet President Trump, I may first grab his crotch—to get his attention—then discuss Science with him [sic]," Tyson said on Twitter Friday afternoon, presumably referencing the increasing number of anti-science Republicans lining up to join the President-elect's post-truth White House team:

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Back in 2012, the President-elect purported that climate change was a hoax perpetrated by China. Following this year's presidential election, China's vice foreign minister reminded the President-elect that this was false. "If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s," Liu Zhenmin toldBloomberg this week.

Tyson has long been a vocal critic of science deniers, telling Larry King in 2015 that the urgency isn't centered on a person's "belief," but instead their level of influence. "In a free country, we tell ourselves we live in a free country, I don't care what you believe," Tyson said at the time. "Believe whatever you want. The problem comes about [when] you're in denial of an emerging scientific truth and you wield power over legislation. That's a recipe for disaster."

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