Goodbye, Paris

[Labster]

Matrix Dragon wrote:

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And some of the Liberal party down here are trying to convince the PM to go 'well, maybe Trump had the right idea'. God fucking dammit.

I'd like to say, "well, we'll always have Paris."  But it looks like that's a no.
At this point, Trump has officially "disappointed" the leaders of:

1. United Kingdom
   
2. France
   
3. Germany
   
4. Italy
   
5. Belgium
   
6. Denmark
   
7. Sweden
   
8. Norway
   
9. Finland
   
10. Iceland
    
11. Marshall Islands
    
12. Fiji
    
13. New Zealand
    
14. United Nations
    
15. Apple, Inc.
    
16. Facebook
    
17. Microsoft
    
18. Tesla
    

And received official government "regret" from:

• Japan
  
• Australia
  

And supporting Trump:

• Poland (woooo clean coal!)
  

And three U.S. states created a pro-climate group, which led to seven other states asking for membership.  Keep in mind that Trump only made the announcement 14 hours ago.
It's hard to overstate the magnitude of this unforced error.  Like it wasn't even a hard policy, each country gets to set its own methods to reach the goals, and there was no enforcement mechanism.  So the only result is to make every other country mad at the US and not trust that we'll keep our agreements.  It's Trump telling the world to go fuck themselves, with a nice long address explaining how everyone was out to get the world's richest country.  In diplomacy, trust is the most valuable commodity.  How much of that do we have left?
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