Andrew Tate may have been kicked off Twitter, Facebook and Instagram earlier this year, but he is somehow back and tried to rile up teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who shut him down in her signature blunt way.

Tate tweeted at Thunberg: “I have 33 cars. My Bugatti has a w16 8.0L quad turbo. My TWO Ferrari 812 competizione have 6.5L v12s. This is just the start. Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions.”

He then replied to himself with a video of one of Thunberg’s speeches spliced with him laughing maniacally behind the wheel of various performance vehicles, climbing aboard private jets and talking about how much money he has.

Thunberg’s response was simple and straight to the point.

“Yes, please do enlighten me,” she wrote. “Email me at [email protected].”

Tate’s tweet was immediately flooded with comments laughing at the exchange.

“‘Dollar shop Vin Diesel’ just got owned,” wrote artist and climate activist Joanie Lemercier.

“You’ve spent your whole life training to fight and just got your ass kicked in one tweet from a teenage girl,” added author Zack Hunt. “Well done.”

Tate recently topped Google’s 2022 most-searched list in the “who is …” category, which made him the seventh most-searched international figure in Australia.

He has been active in far-right circles for years, but he began gaining mainstream attention this year after clips from his appearances on multiple podcasts and Twitch streams went viral.

A lot of the attention he has gained is due to his extreme, often misogynistic statements: comparing women to property, graphically describing how he would assault a woman for accusing him of cheating, and claiming men would rather date women in their late teens over older women because the younger women would have had sex with fewer men.

Twitter had suspended his account back in 2017, when he tweeted that women should “bare some responsibility” for being sexually assaulted, amid other widely criticized statements appearing to blame women for the abuse and harassment they receive – right at the height of the #MeToo movement.

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