Trump tells 'confidants' U.S. will leave Paris climate deal: Axios

[Guest shiloh357]

U.S. President Donald Trump has told "confidants," including the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave a landmark international agreement on climate change, Axios news outlet reported on Saturday, citing three sources with direct knowledge.

On Saturday, Trump said in a Twitter post he would make a decision on whether to support the Paris climate deal next week.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A source who has been in contact with people involved in the decision told Reuters a couple of meetings were planned with chief executives of energy companies and big corporations and others about the climate agreement ahead of Trump's expected announcement later in the week. It was unclear whether those meetings would still take place.

"I will make my final decision on the Paris Accord next week!" he tweeted on the final day of a Group of Seven (G7) summit in Italy at which he refused to bow to pressure from allies to back the landmark 2015 agreement.

The summit of G7 wealthy nations pitted Trump against the leaders of Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Japan on several issues, with European diplomats frustrated at having to revisit questions they had hoped were long settled.

rump, who has previously called global warming a hoax, came under concerted pressure from the other leaders to honor the 2015 Paris Agreement on curbing carbon emissions.

Although he tweeted that he would make a decision next week, his apparent reluctance to embrace the first legally binding global climate deal that was signed by 195 countries clearly annoyed German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"The entire discussion about climate was very difficult, if not to say very dissatisfying," she told reporters. "There are no indications whether the United States will stay in the Paris Agreement or not."

(Reporting by Valerie Volcovici; Editing by James Dalgleish)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-climate-idUSKBN18O00J

[Guest shiloh357]

27 minutes ago, Yowm said:

They will 'leave it be' or will leave it as in 'bye-bye'?

He means that the US isn't going to be a part of it (if the report is correct).

[Running Gator]

Which means that Trump  once again took the cowards way out and would not tell the other G7 members face to face.  

SMH

[Guest shiloh357]

2 minutes ago, Running Gator said:

Which means that Trump was once again a coward and would not tell the other G7 members face to face.  

SMH

That is your own twisted opinion.

[Running Gator]

1 minute ago, shiloh357 said:

That is your own twisted opinion.

It is my opinion but it seems a personal attack to call it twisted

[Guest shiloh357]

1 minute ago, Running Gator said:

It is my opinion but it seems a personal attack to call it twisted

Well, it is twisted. It's just your spin on what was said. That's what spin does.  It spins or twists something into something else.  In this case, it was twisting Trump's decision into false  act of cowardice.

[Running Gator]

58 minutes ago, shiloh357 said:

Well, it is twisted. It's just your spin on what was said. That's what spin does.  It spins or twists something into something else.  In this case, it was twisting Trump's decision into false  act of cowardice.

Just because you do not agree with my opinion does not make it false.  Trump, the man who said climate change was a hoax created by the Chinese, was never going to agree to the Paris accord.  He should have just said, but he lacks the courage to do so.

Just like when he talked trash about Mexico paying for the wall but lacked the courage to tell the Mexican president that when they were face to face.

[Running Gator]

58 minutes ago, Yowm said:

"Disrespectful or threatening comments toward governmental institutions and/or world leaders will not be tolerated."(1 Pet. 2:13-17) -TOS

(hehe)

If it is true, is it still disrespectful?

[Guest shiloh357]

1 minute ago, Running Gator said:

Just because you do not agree with my opinion does not make it false.

I didn't say that it is false simply because I disagree with it.  It's false because it isn't true.  It's just more of your character assassination of the president rooted in meaningless and baseless opinion.

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 Trump, the man who said climate change was a hoax created by the Chinese, was never going to agree to the Paris accord.  He should have just said, but he lacks the courage to do so.

No, if he lacked courage, he would not publicly called the European nations on the carpet and demanded they pay for their defense, to their faces while they were standing just feet away from him.  

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Just like when he talked trash about Mexico paying for the wall but lacked the courage to tell the Mexican president that when they were face to face.

You have no idea what was said to the president of Mexico when the cameras were not running.

[Running Gator]

18 minutes ago, Yowm said:

I suppose we could let the Mods decide that one for this board. Personally, I would say so since it was an opinion of yours not a statemnt of fact.

99.9% of what is posted on this forum is just opinion, that never seems to be a problem when one is on the "right" side of the political debate.