This live feed direct from the Whitehouse will appear below at 3PM EST/Noon PST. In the meantime, you can read all bout the reasons why exiting the Paris Climate Accord is a good idea, not only for America, but the world.
UPDATE: 11:45AM PST, the live feed is up. Click play to see it….beginning soon.
Unfortunately, he may need to do a lot more yet to encourage re-investment, such is the damage and long-lasting fear that has already been created under previous administrations.
Meanwhile, I visited the BBC website, and once again saw a picture of white steam clouds photographed to make them look like black smoke. Some things will not be so easily changed.
Excellent speech.
Trump talks in plain language that we can all understand instead of political gobbledygook.
The first speech of his I have listened to.
Very good in terms of communication.
hits every point….and burns them all a new one at the same time
I love the man……..
Latitude,
I must say I have had my doubts about him, but this is a big campaign promise delivered on. No weaselling, no if, but or however, excuses. The US is out of the Paris Accord.
If the rest of the participants want to agree a new accord between them, that’s acceptable to the US, then the US will listen and engage. Fair enough.
And I make no excuse for drawing yet another comparison to Brexit and Mrs. May, but she has told the EU much the same thing. We’ll exit Europe without a deal before having another crap one imposed on us. President Trump has just issued the world the same message.
I have always maintained than any decision is better than no decision, no matter how bad.
Very nice speech!
Please pay for some real science now DT. Well done.
The Donald has his breeks on and is striding through the bullshit. He’s putting America first and encouraging ever other country to put their own peopl first, and that’s important.
And the Paris Climate Accord is nae but a bit ‘o mashie peas…
Mashie peas are nice, especially wi’ a wee bit O’ Haggis.
Up yer kilt!
Good day for the world. Well perhaps more precisely, a good day for the US and the UK. There is a very common political bond here on a theme. ‘Fu*k you all, we’ll do it our way’
Aye! “Put that in ye sporran, EU’all!”
Two excellent talks! I’m so relieved. I didn’t believe it would happen until it did.
Happy to see that our President isn’t buying what the climate scammers are selling!
WOW, what a great day for commonsense, integrity, jobs, the economy and for science.
Well done, Mr President.
It is great to see a resurgent America.
An excellent speech, with good reasons well stated. His comment on possible redoing an improved version had enough restrictions, that it is not possible, so have no fear on that account.
Why would we even begin to consider renegotiating reentering the agreement, when its stated purpose is NOT scientifically supported? To reenter would be to accept extremely flawed premises.
If it’s a trade deal, then call it a trade deal, and enter THAT. Call it the “Paris Trade Accord”, but get the damn word, “climate”, the heck out of there, especially when this word is subliminally tied to FLAWED CO2 claims.
Get out and stay out.
“Why would we even begin to consider renegotiating reentering the agreement, when its stated purpose is NOT scientifically supported? To reenter would be to accept extremely flawed premises.”
That’s my first thought, too, and probably what Janice is thinking, but we should probably give this aspect a little time to develop. We really don’t know what exactly is being talked about, and when we learn, we can tear it apart if necessary. But it could be just tossing a bone to the alamists, too, to quiet them down for a while.
And if the rest of the world were to offer America lots of money to stay in? You would still want to be out?
It won’t happen, but the rest of the world under the Paris Accord have just taken a massive hit. One of it’s principle sponsors has said “we’re sick of your shit After squabbling amongst yourselves, when you can offer the US a fair deal, then come to OUR table and talk, until then, f*uck off”.
The UK is doing the same with Europe. We are not sheep and once again, the US and the UK stand together on this.
This is WW3, we have all just grown up enough not to fight it with ordnance.
So it’s real progress, globally.
Trump: +1000
+1001
It’s refreshing, every time, to hear the POTUS speak the truth instead of whitewashed political babble.
There is some badness. Trump offers to renegotiate Paris. Pruitt refers to the carbon footprint.
This is a diplomatic language, bury something, but give the impression for the naive (stupid) it is still alive.
Pruiit gave a pretty good speech right after Trump finished.
commieBob
Why on earth do you think Ivanka is given the job of a green voice in the Whitehouse. It’s distraction politics and false hope to be dashed on the rocks of green despair when, and if, it suits America.
Late, repetitious, narrowly focused, full of irrelevant partisan material about the great job he’s doing in other areas, rambling, incomplete.
Still, he made the right choice in saying No; and I’m glad he didn’t punt the issue to the Senate, which would have been dangerous.
“full of irrelevant partisan material about the great job he’s doing in other areas,”
Trump has to blow his own horn because the MSM are all focused on Russian collusion.
Let them deal with the Russians. They obviously have to sell their horror stories. In the meantime Trump can develop his policy. And there are a lot of other things going on. Do not underestimate Steve Bannon and Scott Pruitt and certainly not Mike Pence. I think the AGW crowd can still be glad that Trump is President and not Pence.
However, Trump did focus on the “killer” problem with the anti-CO2 crusade: the negative effect its high costs will have on many ordinary citizens in developed countries—and also blackouts and brownouts from grid instability at sigfnificant reliance on “renewables.” Those impacts would eventually have forced politicians to back off of further promotion of wind and solar. (This is already happening in some pioneering countries and provinces.) A lot of money would have been wasted for little effect. Trump is just employing everyday foresight in avoiding a futile, expensive gesture.
Roger Knights
What’s wrong with fashionably late? perhaps he had to take a shit, who knows.
The whole speech was about the Paris Accord, under any other circumstances he would have been applauded for sticking to the point.
Irrelevant partisan material it may be to you, but the rest of America might not be as hightly educated as you, and they might enjoy a partisan message. I am almost certainly less well educated than you, and I damn well wish our PM would give a speech as rousing as Trumps, the only guy that did it here was Winston Churchill. Like him or love him, he united a nation with partisan speeches.
And how can it have been rambling when you stated it was narrowly focussed?
But we both agree, that irrespective of the content, the decision was correct.
Tres bon!
But wait! The Trump rebuke to world “leaders” can’t be finalized for four years, according to N Y Times climate referees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/trump-paris-climate-agreement.html?mcubz=0&_r=0
This claim prompted some pretty funny satirical comments from Mark Steyn this morning about the agreement being a “Honda Accord” with all four doors jammed shut… or a Hotel California accord.
Whatever, I look forward to the other earnest, if slightly red-in-the-face signatories coming to their respective senses in approximately three… two… one….
Whereupon Trump should welcome them with characteristic bombast to Team U.S.-Nicaragua-Syria.
Who says politics makes for strange bedfellows? Go Team!
I’ve just woken up.(I’m in KL.) Has he done it yet?
Hurrah for COMMON SENSE. Thank you President Trump for being courageous.
Trump makes the point that American money would go to third world nations for the purpose of combating climate greenhouse gas emissions in those nations. Think a very relevant point here is that third world countries desperately need aid, but the sort of aid they need is the kind which will provide them with measurable benefits.
Installing windturbines and solar panels will mainly line the pockets of the renewables installers and manufacturers. Which is no doubt the purpose of the deal. However, it will not provide nearly as much benefit to the local population as would installing coal, gas, nuclear or hydro power stations which run reliably, 24/7. That is what regions like Africa need, and if foreign aid is to be put into such regions we need to ensure it’s put into projects that will actually benefit the locals.