National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster on Sunday said President Donald Trump would reconsider withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement if it included “an agreement that benefits the American people.”
On “Fox News Sunday,” however, McMaster pushed back on suggestions that Trump could reverse his position on the agreement.
“It’s false. That’s a false report,” McMaster said.
Miguel Arias Cañete, the European Union’s commissioner for climate action and energy, on Saturday said U.S. officials said they would “review the terms on which they could be engaged” with the climate change agreement, CNN reported.
The White House denied that Trump’s stance was softening, however.
“He left the door open to reentering at some later time if there can be a better deal for the United States,” McMaster said on ABC’s “This Week” of Trump’s withdrawal from the climate agreement.
“Of course he’s open to any discussions that will help us improve the environment, that will help us ensure energy security and will advance our prosperity,” he added. “If there’s an agreement that benefits the American people, certainly.”
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Seeing as " the American people" don’t own planet Earth, no.
If America is out of the agreement, it’s out.
Why didn’t Trump Tweet this?
I don’t know. I think Trump could be persuaded to sign back in, with very little in terms of changes.
The important thing to Trump was to do away with everything Obama accomplished. Once that is done, he has no issue with resigning the same agreements, so long as HE gets the credit for it.
McMaster is such a fucking brilliant man
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Oh, for fucks sake!