On Thursday, President Donald J. Trump rejected failed former President Obama’s disastrous Paris “global warming” deal that sought to burden our economy with heavy regulations and taxes all to push the left’s global warming hysteria.
In a Rose Garden speech, President Trump said he rejected the global warming agreement because “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” words that the global warming alarmists cannot comprehend.
Now, a new report sheds some more light into why President Trump rejected the globalist scam, and it’s incredible: specifically, he wanted to stick it to “holier-than-thou” elites in America, specifically leftists who fly around in private jets, drive SUVs, and live in massive mansions yet lecture Americans about their environmental impact.
From The Daily Caller:
“This is religion for the political left, and our supporters are constantly being asked to change their behavior,” a top White House official told Axios, who added that “snarky comments” from European leaders also encouraged Trump to withdraw.
The White House official said “Trump resented the corporate critics who ‘ride in fossil-fuel-guzzling planes and SUVs, then act holier-than-thou,’” according to Axios.
Trump announced he would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement, which the Obama administration joined in 2016 after years of negotiating with United Nations member countries. Some 147 countries have ratified the Paris agreement.
Trump said the Paris agreement was poorly negotiated and would harm the U.S. economy. Trump said the deal transferred wealth from the U.S. to economic rivals, like China and India.
“I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” Trump said.
It’s also important to note that the Obama administration didn’t have the authority to commit the United States to a treaty without being ratified by the Senate – a crucial point that the liberal media deliberately ignores in order to attack President Trump.
It’s been rumored that Trump’s liberal son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as well as his daughter Ivanka and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, pushed the President to remain in the global warming deal – but the President chose the American people instead.
On @foxandfriends, @VP Mike Pence praised President #Trump for pulling the United States out of the #ParisAgreement. pic.twitter.com/AxRR718GL2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 2, 2017
For years, liberals like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio have lectured the American public on global warming, yet these hypocrites have bigger carbon footprints than millions of poorer people combined – traveling around the world in private jets accompanied by a fleet of SUVs.
Throughout much of the 2016 campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump railed against corporate and global elitists who want to dictate their liberal agenda onto the American public, with no understanding of how such liberal policies would harm our economy and the American people.
President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate deal is a giant middle finger to elitists all around the world who want America to suffer simply to promote their global warming alarmism.
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