Discord Inferno
A day has passed since President Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate treaty in one of the more baffling (and damaging) decisions in recent memory. Here’s a quick round-up up of reactions, starting with the NYT editorial board: “Paris did not, in short, legally constrain Mr. Trump from doing the dumb things he wanted to do. Which he already has.”
+ The New Yorker: Donald Trump’s “Screw You” To The World.
+ The NYT’s David E. Sanger and Jane Perlez: Trump Hands the Chinese a Gift.
+ In fairness to the president, this decision was not just Trump. 22 Senators sent a letter to the White House urging the move, and Paul Ryan cheered the president for his “commitment to the American people and withdrawing from this bad deal.” Here are more reactions from US and global leaders. And here’s a look at how the move was covered on front pages across the world.
+ Elon Musk and Bob Iger quit Trump’s business advisory panel.
+ One interesting aspect of the reaction to the decision is that it’s not based on national borders. In Vox, David Roberts argues that this is all about globalism vs tribalism.