Mother Jones: Trump Has No Idea What He Just Did or the Backlash That Awaits
Trump Has No Idea What He Just Did or the Backlash That Awaits
If he's capable of regret, he'll regret leaving the Paris deal.
REBECCA LEBER JUN. 1, 2017 3:47 PM
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/05/trump-will-regret-leaving-paris-climate-deal-0#b
The negotiations leading up to the Paris climate accord involved years of delicate diplomacy and thousands of voices offering guidance. President Donald Trump's handling of the decision to leave was the polar opposite.
Despite claiming that he's been "hearing from a lot of people," Trump doesn't appear to have any more detailed knowledge of climate change or the 2015 deal now than when he first pledged to cancel it on the campaign trail. The "lots of people" he's heard from include a disproportionate number of climate-change deniers, even though there are far more leaders in industry and on both sides of the aisle advocating for the US to remain in the agreement. They have argued that the Paris deal is important to the US, not just for its environmental merits, but also not to be excluded from the rest of the world, both economically and politically.
His months of hints and delays on a decision have drawn more than one comparison to The Bachelor reality show, but one with the highest of stakes. He recently went to the strongest US allies at the G7 without a clear answer, leading the G6 to isolate the US when it issued its communiqué that reaffirmed the agreement. As Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent noted, Trump’s nationalist case to exit Paris "does not allow space for recognition of what the Paris deal really is, which is constructive global engagement that serves America’s long term interests, as part of a system of mutually advantageous compromises.”
Trump doesn't have any sense of the backlash that's coming for him and the US now that he's kickstarted the process of pulling out, which won't be official for another three years. Two factors will especially hurt the US: First, the world has been dealing with the US as an unreliable partner on climate change for more than two decades, and leaders still well remember the other times the US reversed course on its promises; second, the world has never been more aligned in favor of action, making climate change a much bigger factor in the US relationship with its allies in non-climate related issues—from trade to defense to immigration—than it once was.
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I just think he enjoys being an asshole. 
well then that would have been alright......
Dump is so obvious....such a narcissistic personality!!! And don't you know those other nations should have begged him back into the folds.....since he is SOOO important!!!
This has been the plan. Eliminate from corporations any financial responsibilities. Shift as much business costs to customers.
Customers want services and businesses, they will now pay for it. 
