Guys, please, if you are in the US, do us all a favor and have your representatives put this guy out to pasture by impeaching him ASAP.
This fellow is both a disgrace and danger to everyone. And I thought that the cowboy Bush junior was bad news when he got elected …
… and re-elected despite the clusterfuck he caused. I predict the same happening with Trump. Continuous flag waving and 'Murrica will follow. MAGA!
Your “Orangissime” seems to think the Paris climate accords are some scam to drain US money.
On this point of this this make perfect sense, empathy and long term plans are not his forte.
“We all share the same responsibility : make our planet great again.”
“To this end, I appointed a former Areva lobbyist as Prime Minister.”
He’ll just hold another rally.
This time it will be “the Rally to Restore Mining” in Butte, Montana.
I know right? It claims the “heraldic blazon” for the flag is “Centered on an azure field, seven circles of silver interlaced, creating a flower”. THAT IS NOT HERALDIC BLAZON. I’m no herald, but I’m pretty sure it should be “Azure a network of seven annulets interlaced argent”.
NPR was talking to someone from the Sierra Club about the Paris pull-out, and their take was surprisingly even-tempered. They basically said that so much prep-work was done under Obama to adopt the Paris agreement that the ‘good work’ is already well underway; we can’t easily just make coal mines reappear or take millions of solar cells off of rooftops or get rid of more-efficient cars. So the US will likely meet or surpass the Paris goals anyway, especially as cities & states and corporations like Exxon (!) commit to it.
BUT – as they said – the rest of the world doesn’t see protecting the environment as a political football. What Trump’s pull-out achieves is making him look like a fool and an enemy of the world.
I feel like the EPA acting Deputy Administrator should add a line to his business cards for the foreseeable future.
“Mike Flynn (no relation).”
Wow. That’s a very deliberate and aggressive diplomatic statement from a country that takes diplomacy seriously. It’s not quite opening a full embassy in California or closing the one in Washington DC but the addition of that one word is extremely significant.
Stop actively rooting for the demise of my country, please.
What happens in the US has a ripple effect on the rest of the planet, including your country.
You don’t understand. Even a (petulant nationalist man-) child knows that for a country to take its rightful place as “Greatest Nation on Earth That Can Do No Wrong” that the U.S. must be portrayed as “Worst Nation on Earth That Can Do No Right.”
[Bold bit reflects post-flag edit. If anyone sees this description as describing themselves … well, self-awareness is progress, I suppose]
Oh it does plenty of wrong. I know, I live here, but at least we try not to make things worse.
No need to. They do it on their own. Macron apparently thinks so too.
Macron is just a tool of the neo-liberal elite, but damn I’m starting to like him anyway.
You know, this response combined with your flag of a comment that didn’t mention you by name only supports my point, right?
I am not so easily fooled. You are Green Potato Pursuivant King of Arms.
(a) I don’t think he’s actively rooting for anything - Bush II did not cause the demise of the US, suggesting Trump will go the same way is less drastic than you propose; and
(b) I know you didn’t mean it as a threat, but that sort of comment is exactly what annoys some people outside the US - “Be careful what you wish for, if we decline so do you.” It may well be true but it is not necessarily so. Trump does seem to be pushing Russia, China and the EU closer together, though at tectonic plate speed.
Trump has also caused something of a resurgence of German nationalism, in a quiet way, and if you don’t want to see anti-Trump comments suggesting a decline in US power and influence I suggest you avoid the German and French press.
France is now the only country in the EU with nukes. Plus if I learn French then I can see what a non-frowning Quebecois looks like 
If pursuing multilateral agreements without further taking into account specific positions of the US federal government counts as “nationalism” in your book, I’m quite sure someone at the typesetter must have messed up the footnotes.
What the hell. I know what sentiment you are referring to, and the discussion of “antiamericanism” in German media and the public opinion is a recurring topos.
But what the hell, nationalism?
We have our fair share of nationalists, but they actually applaud Trumpism.
Less quiet for some.
I am glad that the resurgence of German pride* is focused on their being one of the last bastions of liberal democracy and a major Western country that’s still willing to do things like take in immigrants and acknowledge and address climate change.
[* nationalism is more of a scourge, there as elsewhere, and expresses itself mainly in simple-minded right-wing populist terms – e.g. all Americans support Orange Julius, all British people supported Brexit, etc.]
