A group of children from the Sunrise Movement visited Sen. Dianne Feinstein‘s office to talk about how climate change will impact their lives and encourage her to support Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘s New Green Deal.

It did not go very well.

In a video posted by the Sunrise Movement on Friday, she told the kids: “I’ve been doing this for 30 years… You come in here and say it has to be my way or the highway.”

“I don’t respond to that,” she then said. “I know what I’m doing. Maybe people should listen a little bit.”

The group, which included elementary age kids to teens, told Feinstein that their generation will bear the brunt of today’s politicians’ decisions on climate change.

Feinstein asked one young activist how old they are––16––before saying: “Well, you didn’t vote for me.”

The reaction on Twitter was strong and swift.

Dianne Feinstein scolding these kids for begging her not to pass along a ruined planet is an embarrassment. Chuck Grassley usually makes the best case for why we need term limits, but today that was her gig. https://t.co/z4kvqJjJnj

— Adam Best (@adamcbest) February 23, 2019

Wow, really hard to imagine looking more tone deaf than Dianne Feinstein lecturing a bunch of young people on how THEY should "listen more" to people like her who say we simply won't be able to follow the scientific consensus in addressing climate change on an adequate timescale https://t.co/XzHhAQnUnu

— Kissinger Is Not Your Friend (@RoseAJacob) February 22, 2019

There is really no excuse for a state as “blue and progressive” as California to have a senator like Dianne Feinstein lmao don’t @ me.

— diane alston (@dianelyssa) February 23, 2019

Dianne Feinstein is rich as hell. Her grandchildren and their children won’t ever have to really deal with climate catastrophe.

Of course she doesn’t care.

— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) February 23, 2019

Although some saw it differently:

The group circulating that video of Dianne Feinstein worked to defeat her in the last election.

Just so ya know.

Folks who primary Dems probably wouldn’t be my go-to’s for honest reporting but suit yourselves.

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 23, 2019

Look, let’s be real:

•Senator Feinstein handled this situation badly.

AND

•This is an edited video.
•This was a set up to try and produce exactly this kind of “gotcha” moment.
•If anything, Feinstein was TOO honest about the political realities.

AND THIS ???????? IS RIDICULOUS pic.twitter.com/iE9XRoHuR4

— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) February 23, 2019

WATCH:

This is how @SenFeinstein reacted to children asking her to support the #GreenNewDeal resolution — with smugness + disrespect.

This is a fight for our generation's survival. Her reaction is why young people desperately want new leadership in Congress. pic.twitter.com/0zAkaxruMI

— Sunrise Movement ???? (@sunrisemvmt) February 22, 2019