What Trump Said During Wide-Ranging Interview

Trump made his comments in an interview with editors and reporters of The New York Times. While speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper about conflicts of interest, he said: “You realize that those laws don’t apply to the president, right?”

The US climate-change fight “has never been primarily dependent on Washington”, Bloomberg said.

It will not be easy for the new U.S. president to go against the worldwide current on this vital challenge, especially when 190 countries have already committed themselves in Paris to reduce significantly greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for rising the temperature and sea levels. “And it’s much less expensive for their companies to produce products”.

“I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy”. “I said, ‘You know, I hadn’t thought of that'”.

Cities have spoken. Yesterday, 35 American Mayors from red states and blue states wrote an open letter to President-elect Trump asking for partnership to address climate change. On that count, he was equally equivocal, indicating that he was anxious about “how much [doing something about it] will cost our companies” and the effect on American competitiveness.

Two weeks after his shocking election victory, US President-elect Donald Trump has indicated a u-turn on several of his key poll promises and rhetoric, including his hardline on climate change, torture of detainees and his vow to jail Hillary Clinton. The worldwide pact to battle global warming took effect on 4 November.

“I’m looking at it very closely”, Trump said about the 2015 Paris climate accord, which he had promised to quit during the presidential campaign. “I’ll tell you what”.

But, he also said, “I have an open mind to it” and clean air and “crystal clear water” were of great importance. “Absolutely fine. But we should go much stronger than waterboarding”. “It’s one issue that’s interesting because there are few things where there’s more division than climate change”.

President Barack Obama made inroads with other countries – China in particular – toward new worldwide agreements to roll back global carbon emissions, progress activist groups have anxious will be undone by a Trump presidency.

In his interview with The Times, Trump did not rule out the possibility of man-made climate change, unlike in the past when he dismissed climate change as an expensive, money-making hoax. “Not nice”, Trump, who has been critical of Times’ coverage of him throughout the election tweeted Tuesday. “Some, something. It depends on how much”. Trump’s presumptive EPA pick, Myron Ebell, has made his name as a climate change naysayer, so any optimism as to Trump’s policies should probably be kept in check.

Trump did say that he would be concentrating on whether the USA should withdraw from agreements that it had signed in the past regarding climate change eradication.

It was part of a broader change for the President-elect on the topic of climate science.