Donald Trump damaged himself badly today by trying to spite President Obama
If you tried to come up with a list of what Donald Trump gained today by withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, you’d end up with a blank sheet of paper. Polls say the vast majority of Americans wanted him to remain in it. Business leaders are now resigning from his councils in protest (link). Even his Russian puppet masters didn’t seem to be behind the move. Instead, Trump could only have been focused on one thing: spiting President Obama.
We’ve seen this before. Trump still has no idea what the Affordable Care Act is or does. But because it has Barack Obama’s name on it, he wants to get rid of it. The same goes for Obama’s other legacy defining achievements, such as the Iran peace deal, and yes, the Paris Climate Accord. Trump has reflexively and automatically stood in opposition to everything Obama accomplished, simply because he can’t handle the fact that he’s less popular and less successful than Obama was.
Trump could probably have gotten a three to five point bump in the approval rating polls today just by announcing that he had decided to stick with the Paris Climate Accord. Some of his own advisers surely pointed this out to him. But instead Trump chose to harm his own approval rating, to erode what little is left of his political capital, to tank the U.S. economy, to burn the planet down, and to murder millions of people in the process, all so he could spite Obama.
This is what happens when an unstable psychopath ends up occupying the office of the presidency. He’s eager to destroy us all, and to willfully destroy himself in the process, just so he can enjoy burning it all down. This will likely end with federal agents physically dragging Donald Trump out of the White House after the Democrats take control in the midterms and impeach and convict him. And he’s so psychotically deranged, he might even enjoy that moment as well.
