Trump Just Made the United States the Literal Laughingstock of the World. Again. by reaverfan

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Trump Just Made the United States the Literal Laughingstock of the World. Again.

POSTED BY: REAVERFAN
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 14:33
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018 1:24 PM

The United States of America was the laughingstock of the world Tuesday, and it had nothing to do with the president's Oval Office Smackdown with Chuck and Nancy. Yes, while the World's Most Powerful Man was ruining his made-for-TV special with repeated self-owns, https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25474337/president-trump-wall-m
eeting-chuck-schumer-nancy-pelosi/ there was actually another reason for countries still somewhat moored to reality to cackle in our national face. The Trump administration dispatched an adviser—the inevitably named Wells Griffith—to a United Nations conference in Poland focused on combatting the climate crisis, and he apparently had a mandate to use his appearance to extol the virtues of fossil fuels.

You know, the stuff that's causing the crisis, because we keep burning it. This did not go over well.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25555840/trump-administration-c
limate-conference-fossil-fuels/

While career State Department experts work with others at the conference on actual solutions to the crisis, Trump administration political operatives ensure the United States aligns itself with a couple of oil-producing monarchies and an oil-producing oligarchy to simply reject reality. This closely mirrored the G20 summit, where 19 of the 20 nations reiterated their support for climate action and the United States stood in the corner sulking. It's here we might remind ourselves that the Republican Party is the only major political party in the industrialized world that disputes the scientific consensus that climate change is real and man-made.

Watch the reaction here. http://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1072525534972796928
More here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/that-was-awkward--at-world
s-biggest-climate-conference-us-promotes-fossil-fuels/2018/12/10/aa8600c4-f8ae-11e8-8642-c9718a256cbd_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.22e58148301e

"We strongly believe that no country should have to sacrifice economic prosperity or energy security in pursuit of environmental sustainability."

That's simply insane.

Way to handle those journalists, bro!

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018 2:33 PM

THG

And just made the world a more dangerous place.

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