State Dept. Science Envoy Resigns, Tells Trump ‘Acts And Words Matter’

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A State Department science envoy announced his resignation on Wednesday, citing President Donald Trump’s response to violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and the President’s attitudes toward climate research.

Daniel Kammen, appointed in 2016 as one of the department’s science envoys with a “focus on energy innovation in the Middle East and Africa,” tweeted his resignation letter to Trump.

“Your response to Charlottesville enables racism, sexism, & harms our country and planet,” Kammen tweeted.

In the letter, Kammen wrote that he decided to resign “in response” to Trump’s “attacks on core values of the United States.”

“Your failure to condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis has domestic and international ramifications,” he wrote. “Particularly troubling to me is how your response to Charlottesville is consistent with a broader pattern of behavior that enables sexism and racism.”

Kammen wrote that Trump’s “decision to abdicate the leadership opportunities and the job creation benefits of the Paris Climate Accord,” which Trump in June announced the United States would abandon, and his behavior “to undermine energy and environmental research are not acceptable.”

“Acts and words matter,” Kammen wrote. “Your actions to date have, sadly harmed the quality of life in the United States, our standing abroad, and the sustainability of the planet.”

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  1. A smarter person than me realized that the first word of each paragraph spells out “IMPEACH”

  2. Can’t you just see the thought fart he’ll issue in response. “Loser” will be involved, “Dopey Danny”, perhaps. Covefefe.

  3. Yes! But who’ll tell 45 what the message is. Too many words and too few bullet points.

  4. Nice trolling by Kammen in his paragraph wording, but I wonder why in hell he decided joining the Trumpian clusterfuck was a good idea in the first place. A moderately precocious middle-schooler could have predicted what was going to happen.

    • As others have already pointed out, he was already on the panel; I should have phrased my comment with reference to him staying on after Trump was inaugurated.
  5. He was appointed under President Obama…

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