{"id":5771,"date":"2024-11-06T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/prince-williams-earthshot-awards-presenter-billy-porter-has-been-crying-all-day-over-trump-win\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T22:00:30","slug":"prince-williams-earthshot-awards-presenter-billy-porter-has-been-crying-all-day-over-trump-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/06\/prince-williams-earthshot-awards-presenter-billy-porter-has-been-crying-all-day-over-trump-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William\u2019s Earthshot Awards: Presenter Billy Porter has been \u2018crying all day\u2019 over Trump win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The presenter of Prince William\u2019s Earthshot Awards says he\u2019s been \u201ccrying all day\u201d following Donald Trump\u2019s win in the US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Porter, the Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning actor and singer spoke to Sky News ahead of presenting William\u2019s environmental award ceremony in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>He said he had been feeling \u201chorrible\u201d following the election result and could not explain the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cAmerica has decided, everything has been laid out\u2026 good luck to you all, I\u2019m here, I have a face on, we\u2019re going to soldier on, that\u2019s all, I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no more hiding, no more excuses, everybody knew and they decided for this [Donald Trump], so we\u2019ll see. I have no answers for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>An ardent supporter of <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong>, he told his two million Instagram followers before Tuesday\u2019s vote, that Americans had to decide if they wanted \u201cdemocracy or not\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>President-elect Trump<\/strong> is known to be a <strong>climate change<\/strong> denier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prince William\u2019s Earthshot Awards<\/strong> have been described as the Oscars of the environmental world.<\/p>\n<p>They celebrate and reward innovators working to combat some of the world\u2019s most pressing environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>William<\/strong> arrived on the green carpet wearing a black and white jacket that was bought from a market in London and sustainable trainers made by Purified Shoes, which contain no plastic and are biodegradable.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, in front of a live TV audience, he called on everyone to become part of the Earthshot \u201cmovement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The prince said the Earthshot Prize \u201cisn\u2019t just a celebration of winners. It\u2019s a collaborative movement for change\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He invited his audience \u201cto join the movement for climate innovation that\u2019s happening around the world. Because that\u2019s why we\u2019re here. To champion the dreamers, the thinkers, and the innovators from every walk of life, who share an ambition to build a better, more sustainable world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>William promised the organisation would \u201cdo everything we can to support them and help speed their solutions to scale. Because when they succeed, we all succeed. When they thrive, we all thrive. And when they win, we all win\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>William also spoke in nine different African languages, representing the north, south, east, and west of the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Porter was similarly enthused by the standards of the contestants\u2019 efforts, saying he \u201cloved\u201d how the finalists \u201chave figured out how to be of use. I\u2019ve been blown away by the minds and ideas of finalists to make a difference and make a change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presenter of Prince William\u2019s Earthshot Awards says he\u2019s been \u201ccrying all day\u201d following Donald&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}