Donald Trump announces withdraw from Paris accords: A slap in the face to Pope Francis and the Europeans?

As many expected, US President Donald Trump announced his intention for the US to withdraw from the Paris climate accords known also as COP21:

June 1, 2017

WHITE HOUSE —

President Donald Trump announced Thursday afternoon he will pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement signed by his predecessor, Barack Obama, but will look to enter into a new deal.

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, Trump said he will pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement and will immediately begin talks to re-enter the deal or create a new deal that is better for American taxpayers.

“We’re getting out,” Trump said, but added he will ask negotiators to seek new terms of the agreement, “a deal that’s fair.”

“The Paris climate accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that damages the United States,” Trump said. “…As of today the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding accord.” https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-announces-us-will-pull-out-of-paris-climate-accord/3883090.html

As far as some international background on this, back in December 2015, a major international agreement was been announced in Paris in the COP21 meeting (Conference of the Parties, 21st meeting). The United Nations’ leader Ban Ki-moon pushed for this agreement and succeeded. The Vatican had done work for this as well, but mainly behind the scenes in Paris (see Role of Pope Francis ‘transformative’ for COP21 climate change conference). Then US President Obama attended the first part of the conference and pushed for this global climate deal (see Ecumenalists push for COP21 ‘climate change’ agenda: a solution for terrorism? Barack Obama seemingly wants to stay the course). Later Barack Obama and the Chinese signed something to accept it. But not something that Donald Trump could not get out of legally.

This COP21 Paris agreement was consistent with the Pope Francis’ Laudato Si encyclical in areas of international cooperation, climate matters, and forced wealth redistribution in the Spring of 2015. The accord is basically a move towards socialism and world governance. Many want more of both.

As it turns out, Pope Francis gave Donald Trump a copy of his Laudato Si encyclical to read when the two met last month.

A reader sent me the following that came out before the announcement:

Vatican would see U.S. Paris deal exit as slap in face – official

Reuters- June 1, 2017

The Vatican, which under Pope Francis’ insistence has strongly backed the Paris climate change deal, would see a U.S. exit as a slap in the face and a “disaster for everyone,” a senior official said on Thursday.

At their meeting last month, the pope gave U.S. President Donald Trump a signed copy of his 2015 encyclical letter that called for protecting the environment from the effects of climate change and backed scientific evidence that it is caused by human activity.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin urged Trump in a separate meeting not to quit the Paris accord.

“If he really does (pull out), it would be a huge slap in the face for us,” said Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, head of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which has hosted numerous international conferences on climate change.

“It will be a disaster for everyone,” he told the Rome newspaper La Repubblica. In a telephone call with Reuters, Sanchez Sorondo confirmed the comments in the newspaper.

Trump was due to announce his decision later on Thursday…. https://www.yahoo.com/news/vatican-see-u-paris-deal-exit-slap-face-130440910.html

In a photograph I saw with Donald Trump and Pope Francis, the pontiff did not look happy. He likely is not happy now.

It is also not just the Vatican, European leaders were outraged in the past week because Donald Trump would not commit to the climate change agenda and other agendas they are promoting (see CNN: Trump’s actions have ‘weakened’ the West, German foreign minister says and FOX: ‘Stephen Hawking says humans must flee Earth within century.’ Angela Merkel furious with Donald Trump).

Notice also the following:

June 1, 2017

UNITED NATIONS — Leaders from around the world maintained a steely, defiant front on Thursday after President Trump announced that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.

The Prime Minister of Belgium, Charles Michel, called it “a brutal act.”

Miguel Arias Cañete, the European Union’s commissioner for climate, said Mr. Trump’s decision had “galvanized us.” …

The Paris Agreement entered into force in the General Assembly hall last November, just days before the American presidential election. And it was at the United Nations this week that the isolation of the United States was palpable.

Several Western diplomats said they could not fathom why the White House would join the tiny clique of nations — like Syria and Nicaragua — that had not signed the accord. Speaking anonymously per diplomatic protocol, one longtime ally called the prospect of a withdrawal “selfish.” Another called it “arrogant.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/world/europe/climate-paris-agreement-trump-china.html?_r=0

As regular readers of this page are aware, this rift was expected. At risk of redundancy, notice something I wrote in my book Donald Trump and America’s Apocalypse:

Donald Trump’s view of climate change is expected to set up some type of issue between the USA and Europe. Europe will tend to see the USA as an irresponsible polluter of the planet, while Europe will claim to be the protector that the world needs. (Thiel B. Donald Trump and America’s Apocalypse. Nazarene Books, 2017, p. 45)

Now that Donald Trump has made his official announcement, expect more in Europe to attack the USA for this.

Notice also something related to billionaire George Soros, Europe, and the USA:

June 1, 2017

The European Union is in an “existential crisis” and has to deal with “a multiplicity of accumulated problems” from both inside and outside the region, according to billionaire investor George Soros.

Speaking at the Brussels Economic Forum on Thursday, the Hungarian-born financier struck a downbeat tone on the current state of the EU …

‘Externally, the EU is surrounded by hostile powers — Putin’s Russia, Erdogan’s Turkey, Sisi’s Egypt and the America that Trump would like to create but can’t. Internally, the European Union has been governed by outdated treaties ever since the financial crisis of 2008.’
George Soros

“If the European Union carries on with business as usual, there is little hope for an improvement. That is why the European Union needs to be radically reinvented,” Soros said. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-is-surrounded-by-hostile-powers-including-trumps-us-soros-2017-06-01

The Bible, by the way, does teach that Europe will reorganize (cf. Revelation 17:12-13)–and become a warring power (cf. Revelation 13:1-10).

The Paris agreement, that many in Europe have pushed, is consistent with the “New Universal Agenda” that the 193 members of the United Nations approved in late September of 2015.

As I wrote in the past, this COP21 agreement is likely to greatly benefit Germany. Germany is a world leader in developing cleaner types of engines. Germany also appears to be in the lead to produce energy via helium fusion, and hence reduce the need for fossil fuels (see also German helium fusion stellarator may help propel Europe to dominate the world).

The Bible prophesies that an economically-powerful Europe will arise (cf. Revelation chapters 13 and 18). This accord may help pave the way for nations to become wealthy trading with the end time power connected with Mystery Babylon the Great (Revelation 17:1-5), until it falls (Revelation 18:1-3).

The Bible also prophesies the end of the USA (cf. Daniel 11:39) and that it will be taken over by a power that really did not think it intended to, but would do so anyway (cf. Isaiah 10:5-11).

We are seeing voices in that direction.

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