Pittsburgh is the poster child of showing why the Paris agreement is good economics for the United States and what we did today sets us back decades.

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Yes, in fact, Donald Trump has just announced that the US will join Syria and Nicaragua as the only nations on the planet not a part of the landmark pair.

The US will join the US for the first climate accord.

And by the way, for that matter, Nicaragua didn't join in because they felt that the action was not strong enough.

So really it's just the US and war torn Syria who refused to partake in the agreement.

President Trump announced he will withdraw the US from participation in the climate accord.

He can englobal efforts to combat climate change and citing with so called conservatives who argued that the landmark 2015 agreement was harming the economy.

We have well in the White House rose garden this announcement today, replete with a four piece military band in celebration this afternoon.

Yes, it was a very festive atmosphere.

Donald Trump in his lengthy and at times rambling speech punctuated with, well, let's be kind for now and say highly debated economic numbers, which of course I don't have to get into this, but I can just call him lies because they're just outright lies.

Well, he announced in any case lies or otherwise that he was pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord with hopes for a renegotiation that might somehow allow the US to reenter the language.

Reenter the landmark pact or or a completely different agreement after the this after the US and the and the UN achieved the years long effort back in 2015 to bring together nearly 200 countries for the largest world agreement in history.

Here was Donald Trump today in the White House rose garden in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens.

The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord.

Thank you.

Thank you.

But begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris accord or in really entirely new transaction.

One terms that are fair to the United States its businesses its workers its people its taxpayers.

So we're getting out. But we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that's fair and if we can that's great and if we can't that's fine.

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