Will President Trump bring the country back into the Paris climate agreement? The bets are on, and this bet says he will.
After his call to ban transgender troops from serving in the armed
forces, our military leaders pushed back, and Trump pulled back. Defense
Secretary James Mattis is now tasked with devising a new policy months
hence. Meanwhile, transgender people are re-enlisting.
What makes one think that Trump will follow a similar trajectory on the Paris climate deal? Several things.
One, and I hate putting this first because it should be the least
consequential: his approval ratings. They've been inching up from the
depths for three weeks in a row. Trump's moves toward moderation, which
includes working with Democratic leaders, are surely playing a part. A
rising applause meter lowers a reality TV star's blood pressure.
Two, and it's a shame this has to go second, is Emmanuel Macron. The
French president excels in courting Trump's grandiosity. As other
European leaders gave Trump a wide berth, Macron gallantly invited him
to Paris for the Bastille Day parade.
At the Elysee Palace, Macron had Trump sitting on gilded chairs that the
gilded chairs in Trump Tower wish they could be. Trump was so impressed
by the Bastille Day spectacle that he's proposing a Fourth of July
parade in Washington that would "top it."
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