Trump wants to shut out the world. Ditching the Paris deal proves it | Simon Jenkins
by Simon Jenkins from on (#2RKG5)
The president's decision to withdraw from the climate agreement reflects his contempt for internationalism - and the rise of a newly isolationist US
So we do have a new US - for the present. In the jargon of Trumpology, the president has tossed a sop to his climate-change denying chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and disappointed his green daughter, Ivanka. Or at least he is withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord in three years (Bannon) but "renegotiating" it (Ivanka).
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