--- title: Paris Agreement: Kellyanne Conway Weighs In description: Kellyanne Conway dodged a question about whether President Trump still believes climate change is a hoax. canonical: https://time.com/4802844/kellyanne-conway-trump-climate-change/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-02T12:49:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:13:58.250Z article:section: Politics og:title: Paris Agreement: Kellyanne Conway Weighs In og:description: Kellyanne Conway dodged a question about whether President Trump still believes climate change is a hoax. og:url: https://time.com/4802844/kellyanne-conway-trump-climate-change/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8d8c2ab1f4b3b53/6988bd42a988cad3366bb431/white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Conway delivers a television interview outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Paris Agreement: Kellyanne Conway Weighs In twitter:description: Kellyanne Conway dodged a question about whether President Trump still believes climate change is a hoax. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8d8c2ab1f4b3b53/6988bd42a988cad3366bb431/white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kellyanne Conway Declines to Say If President Trump Thinks Climate Change Is a Hoax  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jun 2, 2017 12:49 PM UTC  White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway delivers a television interview outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington on March 6, 2017. White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway delivers a television interview outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington on March 6, 2017.Jonathan Ernst—Reuters  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jun 2, 2017 12:49 PM UTC One day after President Trump announced he’s [withdrawing](http://time.com/4801134/paris-agreement-withdrawal-donald-trump-rose-garden/?) from the Paris climate accord, counselor Kellyanne Conway dodged a question about whether he believes climate change is a hoax. [Asked directly by ABC](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-counselor-kellyanne-conway-wont-president-believes-global/story?id=47787361) whether the president still believes climate change is a hoax, Conway replied, “The president believes in a clean environment, clean air, clean water. He’s received awards as a businessman in that regard. He made very clear yesterday what he doesn’t believe, which is that the U.S. government should stay in an agreement that gives us too much of the financial burden.” In the past, Trump has repeatedly denied climate change, [once saying](http://time.com/4509488/donald-trump-climate-change-hoax/?iid=sr-link2) it was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4802844/kellyanne-conway-trump-climate-change/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4802844/kellyanne-conway-trump-climate-change/"},"headline":"Kellyanne Conway Declines to Say If President Trump Thinks Climate Change Is a Hoax","datePublished":"2017-06-02T12:49:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:13:58.250Z","description":"In the past, Trump has repeatedly denied climate change","url":"https://time.com/4802844/kellyanne-conway-trump-climate-change/","keywords":["White House","climate change","paris agreement","kellyanne conway","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8d8c2ab1f4b3b53/6988bd42a988cad3366bb431/white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8d8c2ab1f4b3b53/6988bd42a988cad3366bb431/white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Conway delivers a television interview outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington","caption":"Conway delivers a television interview outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington","creditText":"Jonathan Ernst—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4802844/kellyanne-conway-trump-climate-change/","name":"Kellyanne Conway Declines to Say If President Trump Thinks Climate Change Is a Hoax"}}]}] ```