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Rotherham for US News, “What Trump’s Playing at With Paris”

  • June 2, 2017
  • Andrew J. Rotherham

Here we go again. You can’t find a single person at Whole Foods who thinks it’s a good idea for President Donald Trump to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord! Substantively, they’re probably right. But on the politics? There, Trump is winning.

Why? Pittsburgh, not Paris. Democrats confuse the two at their political peril.

Just as with “Make America Great Again,” Trump’s “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris” is easy to mock. Here’s Vox rushing to show the world just how much smarter they are than Trump – what a fool, he didn’t even win Pittsburgh!

 Continue reading at US News.

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