Is anyone surprised that trump pulled out of the Paris agreement?

[raccoon]

I figured he probably would.

Just to be a dick is one reason he did that, IMO.

[lapfog_1]

1. Anything that Obama did must be undone.

that's pretty much his motivation.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. That is his prime motivation.

I think it all started when Obama made fun of him at that Correspondent's Dinner. In his mind, this is the revenge that he is owed because Obama was unfair to him. He doesn't care how many people will be negatively impacted by the actions he is taken as long as he can overturn anything and everything that Obama accomplished while he was in office.

What a petty, foolish person he is. I can't really call him a man.

[HughBeaumont]

2. NO other reason.

This does NOTHING to advance Conservative principles.

Give ONE humane, logical and/or non-corporate-benefitting reason that we needed to do this.

[Goodheart]

3. He's a sociopath so, no, it doesn't surprise me that he did something sociopathic.

[femmocrat]

4. No. He is Putin's Puppet after all. nt

[mn9driver]

5. Russia is a petro economy. Putin's wealth is tied up in fossil fuels.

Weakening this agreement is a win for Putin. So is weakening NATO. So no, I'm not surprised at all.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. He is trying to undo everything Obama did,

regardless of what the impact might be. If Obama had funded a successful and cheap cure for cancer Trump would have canceled the funding for it. If Obama had funded the development of a free and infinitely renewable energy source Trump would have canceled that. If Obama had hung up a picture of George Washington in the Oval Office Trump would have taken it down and smashed it. If the toilet paper in the WH bathrooms unrolled from the top during the Obama administration Trump would have turned all the rolls around so they unrolled from the bottom. He wants to erase all evidence of Obama's presidency - probably because Obama dissed him at the WH Correspondents' Dinner.

[democratisphere]

8. drumpf is just serving up another BIG FU to the entire world.

drumpf is the authoritarian decider and that's that.

[bdamomma]

10. who needs to be stopped.

period. Let him take his hissy fit to the professionals and treat him for his symptoms.

[Oneironaut]

9. Not at all. He represents the interests of like 15% of the country right now.

That 15% is full of extremists, wack-jobs, and racists. They want us to pull back completely from the international community and become an authoritarian hermit nation.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Nope. Trump to Trump: Hmmm...What would an asshole do?

Trump back to Trump: Pull out of the Paris agreement just to be a spiteful little dick. Trump back to himself again: Splendid! That is exactly what I am going to do! Now cue my theme song...

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[jalan48]

12. No. He's doing the bidding of the fossil fuel industry and will be well compensated later on.

That's how our government is working these days.

[Seeking Serenity]

13. Wasn't that one of his campaign pledges? (n/t)

[Amishman]

14. He hates anything that obligates the US to other countries

Hence his negativity towards the UN, NATO, and trade agreements.