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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Washington, News, Politics, President, Wickenden, Wnyc, Barack, Obama, Lizza

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

What do Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, his lecturing of NATO, and his embrace of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, have in common? Ryan Lizza joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what diplomacy looks like when it is premised on spite.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about

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politics.

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It's Friday, June 2nd. I'm Dorothy Wickend, an executive editor of The New Yorker.

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Yesterday, President Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Accord,

1:04.9

the 2015 Agreement on Climate Change.

1:07.8

The Paris Agreement handicaps the United States economy in order to win praise from the very

1:14.9

foreign capitals and global activists that have long sought to gain wealth at our country's

1:22.3

expense.

1:24.2

They don't put America first.

1:27.4

I do and I always will.

1:31.7

Brian Lizzie joins me to discuss the emerging Trump doctrine, as manifested in his

1:37.1

Rose Garden announcement, his recent trip to the Middle East and Europe, and the latest

1:41.9

revelations about the administration's attempts to cultivate ties

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