Trumps reputation as a dealmaker is a sham, walking away from Paris proves it
The man who wrote The Art of the Deal just put a knife into one of the best deals ever negotiated on behalf of this country. His decision Thursday to abandon the Paris climate agreement proves he is in reality one of the worst dealmakers in history.
Of course, with six bankruptcies and an astounding 4,000 lawsuits over three decades, Trump has always been less of a dealmaker and more of a con man, as Michael Bloomberg and so many others have described him.
But exiting Paris makes Trump the villain for all climate disasters to come, simultaneously weakening his presidency and ruining his brand. As well it should: Global commitments to keep cutting carbon pollution under the Paris framework represent the world’s best hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change and economic ruin.
On top of that, the U.S. emissions reduction pledge was the absolute bare minimum we could possibly put on the table and was much weaker than most other rich countries.
That’s why Trump’s claim Thursday he is willing to somehow “negotiate our way back into Paris … or to negotiate a new deal” was rejected just an hour later in a rare joint statement by the leaders of Germany, Italy, and France, who said, “We firmly believe that the Paris Agreement cannot be renegotiated.”
https://thinkprogress.org/the-arse-of-the-deal-a90ba795cabf
Of course many of us knew Trump was a sham long time ago
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