After becoming the youngest recipient of TIME's Person of the Year, Greta Thunberg was brutally compared to Adolf Hitler by a professional golfer. Photos / Getty/Photosport
After becoming the youngest recipient of TIME's Person of the Year, Greta Thunberg was brutally compared to Adolf Hitler by a professional golfer. Photos / Getty/Photosport
Spanish golfer Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño has brutally compared 2019 TIME Person of the Year Greta Thunberg to Adolf Hitler in a bizarre series of tweets on Friday.
Thunberg is a world-renowned environmental activist, who has campaigned for greater action to combat climate change. The Swede made headlines in August by sailingto New York City for climate conferences, choosing not to fly in hopes of reducing her carbon footprint.
After Thunberg was announced TIME's Person of the Year on Thursday, becoming the youngest person in history to do so, Fernández-Castaño posted a map on Twitter detailing his flight paths from 2019.
"Another year in the books! Enjoy @GretaThunberg," Fernández-Castaño posted.
The 39-year-old also shared a graphic detailing the amount of CO2 and methane the planes ejected during his flights.
Fernández-Castaño inevitably faced some backlash, but doubled down on his criticism of Thunberg by comparing the 16-year-old to Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
"So what? Adolf Hitler was @TIME Person of the Year in 1938. So was Stalin, not once but twice," Fernández-Castaño posted.
So what? Adolf Hitler was @TIME Person of the Year in 1938. So was Stalin, not once but twice.
Previous winners of TIME's Person of the Year include American Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, along with Mark Zuckerberg and Vladimir Putin.
