Jane Fonda: The sooner Trump leaves office, the better for the environment

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Jane Fonda: The sooner Trump leaves office, the better for the environment

Caroline Kelly CNN
Published Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:41AM EST

In this Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, file photo, actress and activist Jane Fonda is arrested at the Capitol for blocking the street after she and other demonstrators called on Congress for action to address climate change, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she doesn't care whether U.S. President Donald Trump faces impeachment or 2020 voters, so long as he is removed in order to address .

"He is an oil President. His Cabinet is an oil Cabinet," Fonda told Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight" when asked where she stood on impeachment during an interview that aired late Wednesday. "He is bought off by fossil fuels. And a lot of people in the Senate, a lot of Republican candidates, are too."

"We can't solve the problem when we have elected officials who are paid by the fossil fuel industry," she added. "And so the sooner that we move beyond him, the better, whether it's through the elections or through impeachment or whatever."

Fonda's comments came following at the U.S. Capitol to raise awareness about climate change. The actress previously said she had about dire environmental challenges, calling her protests "Fire Drill Fridays."

"I'm trying to show on my 'Fire Drill Fridays,' this is the new normal," she told Lemon. "We have to be out there. We have to be risking arrest. We have to engage in civil disobedience because we have very little time and what has to happen is so huge."

Fonda also voiced support for the -- a plan to combat climate change proposed by progressive Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York -- comparing it to to spur recovery from the Great Depression.

"We did it, kind of, during the New Deal. Roosevelt was forced to put into play programs that lifted people out of poverty and despair -- he left out African Americans," she said.

"This time with a Green New Deal, everyone will be lifted, and we have to fight for that," Fonda continued. "Which means we can't elect anybody to office that isn't really brave."