Donald Trump just cemented his legacy as America’s worst-ever president

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Donald Trump just cemented his legacy as America’s worst-ever president

In an inexplicable abdication of any semblance of responsibility or leadership, Donald Trump has announced that he will begin the process to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate treaty, joining Nicaragua and Syria as the only world countries rejecting the agreement. It now seems inevitable that the history books will view Trump as America’s worst-ever president.

Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris treaty is a mostly symbolic act. America’s pledges to cut its carbon pollution were non-binding, and his administration’s policies to date had already made it impossible for America to meet its initial Paris climate commitment for 2025. The next American president in 2020 can re-enter the Paris treaty and push for policies to make up some of the ground we lost during Trump’s reign.

However, withdrawing from the Paris treaty is an important symbolic move – a middle finger to the rest of the world, and to future generations. America is by far the largest historical contributor to climate change. Ironically, on the heels of Trump’s claim that most NATO members aren’t paying their fair share to the organization, America has announced that we won’t do our fair share to curb the climate change threats that we are the most responsible for.

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And the GOP has become the Party of Trump. His decision was reinforced by a letter from 22 Republican senators urging withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty. Those senators have coincidentally received over $10m in donations from the fossil fuel industry over the past five years.

Their reasoning was dubious at best, arguing that environmental attorneys will cite the international agreement in their efforts to prevent the Trump administration from eliminating President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. By law, the US government is required to regulate carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act, because it poses a threat to public welfare. The Republican Senators wrote:

Environmentalists will argue that these [Clean Air Act] Section 115 requirements are, in fact, met more easily by the Paris Agreement because it includes enhanced transparency requirements in Article 13, which establishes a process for nations to submit plans to reduce emissions to one another and then to comment on the plans of one another.

As National Resource Defense Council climate and clean air program senior attorney David Doniger explained to me, this argument is nonsense:

They are making things up. EPA did not rely on Paris to justify the Clean Power Plan, and none of the parties defending the Plan has cited Paris as a legal basis. On Clean Air Act Section 115, no one I know has made, or even thought of, this argument.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...d-his-legacy-as-americas-worst-ever-president
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Why didn't Donald, not stay in the paris accord and simply not try to achieve its goals like every other leader plans to do?
 
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Yup, Elon.....who cares about about jobs of the future.

Get your horses ready....buggies are coming back.
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Why would we get our horse ready? Horse and buggies do not run on fossil fuels. However you might need them up there. Good luck trying to heat your homes with algae and solar!
 
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I mean, common!!!! No one actually plans on honestly making any of those objectives!!!! Why did Trump decide to be honest about it and back out of the deal?
 
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:lol:

This is the dumbest thing any leader has done in global history. :lol:
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Its political suicide. But, Maybe thats why he won the election;)

The Donald isn't calculating political Correctness in his decision like every other president
 
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I think it is meaningless whether the US is in or out as the agreement is a photo-op only but the explosion of pain by Flossy in this thread is worth it.
 
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All ither president would have stayed in the accord and not even try to own up to the commitments.

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I think it is meaningless whether the US is in or out as the agreement is a photo-op only but the explosion of pain by Flossy in this thread is worth it.
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Well it does speek to the imaginary world he lives in. Thats for sure. PC is his religion.
 
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You really don't realize the boomerang effect his 'win' has caused do you? :lol:
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What? The planet is going to melt? The oceans are going to rise? Other countries are going to come and get us?

LMAO... Feel that sting? That's your pride talking. :lol:
 
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