Smerconish on Paris Accord: Trump Threw ‘His Base a Bone’ After Not Fulfilling Other Promises
President Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement simply to "throw his base a bone," says @smerconish https://t.co/aRtNhgTH67
— CNN (@CNN) June 3, 2017
While making his announcement that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, President Donald Trump justified the exit by bringing up all of the jobs he would be saving in the fossil fuels industry, namely coal.
At the beginning of his CNN program this morning, Michael Smerconish took the president to task for this, noting that it appears that the main reason Trump left the accord was so he could get a political win for his base.
“Here’s the worst part about the president’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord,” Smerconish stated. “It was a decision of global importance not made based on science and diplomacy, but one which appears to have been determined by a political calculus.”
After highlighting a number of unfulfilled promises from Trump, such as backtracking on calling China a currency manipulator, inability to implement the travel ban and not getting the border wall started, Smerconish pointed out that Trump was willing to hurt our standing with the rest of the world to satisfy a slice of the electorate.
“The president needed to deliver on something that he promised,” he explained. “So he cloaked his opposition in the promise of jobs, casting our lot with fossil fuels and not with renewable energy. All to throw his base a bone.”
He went on to add that the United States has now “abdicated our leadership role” and given China a “perfect rebranding opportunity.”
Watch the clip above, via CNN.
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