All in the name of short-run profit for the 1% and that lulz RWNJs get when they think globalists are on the run. Trump’s Judgment of Pittsburgh will endure as the most foolish of his innumerable blunders. Yet another stop on the Trump Craters the US Economy Tour:1300 more days of Shock Doctrine.
Trump Pulling Out of Paris Climate Accord Is "Suicide Note to the World"
More than 20 Republican senators had called for Trump to leave the deal. Influential Trump advisers, reportedly Steve Bannon and EPA Director Scott Pruitt, also urged him to withdraw…
Barack Obama had used his authority as president to join the Paris accord without a vote in Congress. That means Trump can also remove the U.S. from the accord without a vote. But it will take awhile: Under the terms of the agreement, he wouldn't actually be able to withdraw until November 2020.
Leaving the underlying treaty — the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — would be faster, and could be completed within a year. But that treaty was U.S. Senate-ratified. Presidents have unilaterally exited Senate-ratified treaties before, but it's rare and controversial.
Then again, there are the eponymous Mike Flynn doppelgängers who continue to hope that President Bannon will retain power because he will be promised in marriage to Barron (see Milo Yiannopolos)
Right-wing radio host Jesse Lee Peterson spent a portion of his show yesterday again praising President Trump as a white savior sent by God