Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals. The president has made no secret of his distaste for wind and solar in America. Now he’s taking his fossil fuel agenda overseas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/climate/trump-international-pressure-climate-oil.html

by coolbern

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  4. World leaders are pretending to comply so he will turn his attention elsewhere, but privately they are laughing behind his back.

  5. The US elected a bafoon as a leader. The world will laugh, move on and contnue to develop renewable energy technology without the good ol US of A.

  6. Donald Trump is a absolute moron in all categories and he’s especially moronic in his energy policies! He doesn’t give a shit about the climate because he knows he will be either dead in a few years or be in an assisted care facility without a thought in his head due to his ever worsening dementia.

  7. Can someone tell him the White House has Solar Panels ? Or is he gonna hold a press conference, put on a pecker looking hat and remove them himself .. 

  8. Europe and the world need to move on from this toxic relationship. It’s not like a fossil power plant is going to pay off before the US has a regime change again.

    Keep saying “world’s largest economy” until it’s not true anymore, but no matter how much money you have it doesn’t make being a bipolar personality safe to do business with.

  9. Every other nation should redouble their efforts in spite of him after publicly laughing in his face

  11. Congestive Heart Failure cannot come soon enough… to him and every fossil fuel ‘leader’.

  12. What’s wrong with solar? I know the initial costs are high, but wouldn’t it compliment oil and gas in homes, and cut down the price of heating; cooling; and general electric use? Wouldn’t it make our electric bills much cheaper in the long run?

  14. Seriously why though? Does big coal have dirt on him too or is he just that dumb that he really thinks that wind is killing all the birds and whales or whatever nonsense he spews?

  15. This is gonna end well for him. I’m sure of it. /sar

  17. He is doing it for Russia ..Iran and Saudi Arabia.
    Russia needs to sell oil for mega bucks.

  18. You know you’re losing bigly when you try and bully *the rest of the world* to sign on to your delusion

  19. Everyone follows economic principles of one kind or another. Most of them don’t work. But what does that have to do with trumps anti wind/solar? On your mind, is that based on sound economic policy? To put all your eggs in one basket?

  20. A lot of America’s dominance really hinges on fossil fuels. It is a major producer of oil which contributes significantly to its economy(8% of GDP) and reduces it’s trade deficit by a lot.

    And the petro dollars arrangement which brings significant investments into the US which is what funds the huge budget deficits America has been running for the past decade at relatively low cost.

    And American oil producers are the most vulnerable to declining oil prices because of the higher cost of production of shale oil. They will be the first to shut production.

    If you really look at these factors combined you clearly see why America has been continuously attacking China even under Biden and why trump is so against renewable energy of which china controls the production of.

    The power is visibly moving away from America towards China and renewable energy is the final nail in the coffin. China’s only vulnerability used to be its energy import dependency. Now china stands at an equal footing and is already calling America’s bluff and returning the punches.

    This is not to say America would collapse without fossil fuels but it’s dominance certainly would and for the first time in a long time they would be forced to curb their spending habits. That future is not that far away. Maybe just a decade or 2 from now

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