Trump's Paris Ruse

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🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We all just became actors in Donald Trump’s reality TV show. After an elaborate tease over the Paris climate deal in recent weeks, the president finally revealed that he’s walking away from the historic agreement. Soon after Trump’s speech, world leaders issued bold statements: It’s not going to happen. There is no renegotiation process. The deal is the deal. Then local officials spoke up. It didn’t take long for dozens of U.S. mayors and governors to adopt the targets set by the climate accord. And then the corporate fallout started. Already, Elon Musk and Disney CEO Bob Iger have quit Trump’s business advisory council. Many more executives have publicly rebuked the president. The international and domestic consequences of this decision are still playing out. In this episode of the Energy Gang, we grapple with in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s speech. What should we take seriously? This episode is sponsored by KACO New Energy: kaco-newenergy.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:25.0	Thanks Kako.
0:27.0	The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
0:37.0	Climate Accord.
0:38.0	Thank you.
0:49.0	But begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris Accord or in really entirely new transaction
1:02.4	when terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people,
1:10.0	it's taxpayers.
1:12.0	So we're getting out, but we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that's fair.
1:21.0	And if we can, that's great. And if we can't, that's fair and if we can that's great and if we can't that's fine.
1:26.4	We all just became actors in Donald Trump's terrifying reality TV show.
1:32.2	After an elaborate tease over the Paris climate deal in
1:34.8	recent weeks, the president finally said he's done. He is walking away from the
1:39.2	historic agreement. Today's speech was a staggering piece of Rose Garden Theater, a rhetorical exercise that doesn't
1:46.5	actually mean a whole lot in practice right now, but that we'll have immediate symbolic
1:51.0	diplomatic consequences.
1:53.4	This afternoon, literally the minute after the president finished his speech, Catherine
1:57.7	Jigger and I turned on our microphones and recorded our reactions.
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