Harrison Ford didn’t mince words. In a searing new interview with The Guardian, the Hollywood legend torched President Donald Trump over his refusal to take climate change seriously — calling him a danger not just to the planet, but to humanity itself.
“It scares the s‑‑‑ out of me,” Ford said. “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.”
Ford didn’t stop there. “It’s unbelievable,” he added. “I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”
The actor’s ire centers on Trump’s approach—or lack thereof—to climate change. Ford expressed hope that the president’s “drill, baby, drill” energy policies wouldn’t prevail, noting that Trump is “losing ground because everything he says is a lie.”
Despite his anger, Ford is not without optimism. “I’m confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies,” he told The Guardian. “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.”
In a moment of pointed humor, Ford also mocked Trump’s well-documented disdain for renewable energy. On the topic of wind turbines, Ford remarked that the president “has just not seen a gold one.”
The interview took place ahead of Ford’s appearance at Chicago’s Field Museum on Wednesday, where he was honored with a conservation award by the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. Ford and the late biologist, who passed away in 2021, were close friends.
Ford has long been critical of Trump, and his political stance has been clear. Last year, he endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. “The other guy [Trump], he demands unquestioning loyalty, says he wants revenge,” Ford said in a video supporting Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).
Ford’s critiques aren’t limited to real-world politics. In a nod to his cinematic legacy, he has often compared Trump unfavorably to his fictional presidential characters. Before the election, a National Research Group survey revealed that Ford’s “Air Force One” character, President James Marshall, polled strongest among fictional presidents when hypothetically stacked against Trump and Harris—a list that also included Morgan Freeman’s President Tom Beck from Deep Impact and Bill Pullman’s President Thomas J. Whitmore from Independence Day.
Whether on the screen or off, Harrison Ford is making it clear: when it comes to leadership, he sees Trump as one of history’s most dangerous figures.
