Paris Agreement affects US economy according to Trump

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, assured during the last day of the G20 summit that the Paris Agreement was not created to save the environment, but to “kill” the US economy.

“I refuse to hand over millions of American jobs and send billions of dollars to the worst polluters and environmental violators in the world,” Trump said.

At the last G20 summit, whose headquarters this time was Saudi Arabia, the US president once again dropped by videoconference from the White House that this agreement only benefits the main competitors of the United States, such as China.

Although Trump participated in the opening session on Saturday, a few minutes later he focused on his social networks, where he started a new string of messages denouncing the alleged electoral fraud of which he would have been a victim during the presidential elections. Two hours later, he definitely left the meeting to go play golf.

In turn, and on the sidelines of the G20 summit, the White House released a video on environmental policies during the Trump Administration, reports CNN.

In the video, Donald Trump assured that the environmental issue under his mandate has been “a sacred obligation” and that it has been the president of the United States who has done the most for the conservation of national parks since Theodore Roosevelt.

“Every day we are proving that we can protect our workers, create new jobs and safeguard the environment without imposing harmful mandates and unilateral international agreements on our citizens,” he stressed.

Washington formally abandoned the Paris Agreement against climate change in early November, a year after notifying it to the United Nations.

K. Tovar

Source: dpa