Obama criticises Trump in Indonesia speech for withdrawal from Paris climate deal
Source: The Age
Jakarta: Former President Barack Obama, stressing the importance of the Paris climate agreement, criticised President Donald Trump for taking the US out of the deal.
Trump said last month he would withdraw from the agreement and seek to negotiate a better deal.
"In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history to fight climate change," Obama said on Saturday in a speech at the opening of the Fourth Congress of the Indonesian Diaspora in Jakarta. He said it was "an agreement that even with the temporary absence of American leadership will still give our children a fighting chance."
"The challenges of our times, whether it's economic inequality, changing climate, terrorism, mass migration; these are really challenges and we're going to have to confront them together," he said.
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Normally a past president would never criticize the policies of a sitting president.
But who can blame Obama? He's had his name dragged though the mud every single day, and complete lies told about him and his policies. Trump has demonstrated that he doesn't deserve the standard courtesies because he doesn't show any courtesy himself.
Secondly Obama is completely correct, we should have never quit the Paris accord. It's not Trump's call to do that anyway. It's extremely short-sighted and stupid. I sure hope the next President can undo the damage Trump has done.
