DONALD
TRUMP'S ATTACKS AND RHETORIC
GEARED TOWARD ALLIES OF THE UNITED STATES IS LEADING TO SOME
BLOWBACK AND ALSO SOME INTERNATIONAL FALLOUT.
CASE IN
POINT, HIS TWITTER EXCHANGE WITH
THE MAYOR OF LONDON.
OF COURSE MAYOR SADIK KHAN DID NOT
MINIMIZE IT, HE JUST CALLED FOR PEOPLE IN THE AREA DO NOT BE
ALARMED, JUST AN INCREASED
POLICE PRESENCE.
TRUMP TWISTED THAT TWEETS TO MAKE IT SEEM AS
THOUGH HE WAS MINIMIZING WHAT
HAD HAPPENED.
WHAT IS GOING ON NOW?
SADIK KHAN IS NOT CALLING
FOR A STOP TO ANY VISIT BY
DONALD TRUMP.
LET'S GO TO THE VIDEO WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT THIS IN MORE DETAIL.
WOULD YOU LIKE THE STATE VISIT TO BE CALLED OFF?
MY POSITION REMAINS THE SAME.
I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE
ROLLING OUT A RED CARPET TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA IN THE
CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE HIS POLICIES GO AGAINST EVERYTHING WE STAND
FOR.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS, WHEN YOU HAVE A SPECIAL
RELATIONSHIP IS NOT DIFFERENT THEN TO WHEN YOU HAVE A CLOSE
MATE.
YOU STAND WITH THEM IN TIMES OF ADVERSITY, BUT YOU CALL
THEM OUT WHEN THEY ARE WRONG.
AND THERE ARE MANY THINGS ABOUT WHICH DONALD TRUMP IS WRONG.
THAT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.
AGAIN THE MAYOR OF LONDON DEALING WITH A HUGE TRAGEDY IN
AN AREA THAT HE REPRESENTS, TRYING TO HANDLE THE SITUATION,
AND DONALD TRUMP ATTACKS THEM.
I SAID THIS YESTERDAY, I THINK
DONALD TRUMP SPECIFICALLY ATTACKED HIM AND TWISTED HIS
WORDS ON TWITTER BECAUSE HE IS A MUSLIM MAYOR.
IT WAS A WAY OF
EARNING SOME CHEAP POLITICAL
BROWNIE POINTS FOR HIS BASE.
THE MAYOR DID NOTHING WRONG, HE'S JUST TELLING PEOPLE TO
STAY CALM WHICH IS THE RIGHT COURSE OF ACTION.
DO YOU WANT TO TELL PEOPLE TO FREAK OUT?
LET ME DEFEND THE VALUE OF PANIC.
HE WAS DOING WHAT YOU
SHOULD DO AND WHAT EVERY MAYOR, EVERY GOVERNOR, EVERY PRESIDENT
DOES WHEN THERE IS A TERROR
ATTACK.
YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO FREAK OUT BECAUSE IT IS
DANGEROUS AND IT GIVES THE
TERRORISTS WHAT THEY WANT.
DONALD TRUMP IN ADVOCATING FOR
MORE HORROR IS TRYING TO AMPLIFY THE EFFECT OF THE TERRORISTS
THERE.
IN TERMS OF CALLING OFF THE STATE VISIT, THIS IS ONLY
THE LATEST CALL.
WHEN THEY TALKED A FEW MONTHS AGO ABOUT
GOING TO THE UK THERE WERE CONCERNS THERE.
HE ROUTINELY
INSULTS THE UK, BRITAIN SPECIFICALLY.
I DON'T KNOW WHY
YOU WOULD WANT HIM TO GO.
IF HE DOES GO I THINK THERE WILL BE PROTESTS.
YES.
THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH LONDON'S
MAYOR, MORE ABOUT THE LOOSE TALK AND RHETORIC YOU ARE SEEING, HOW
HE ANTAGONIZES LONGTIME ALLIES
OF THE UNITED STATES.
YOU NEED AMERICAN ALLIES.
WHY ARE YOU
NEEDLESSLY GOING OUT AND
ATTACKING PEOPLE?
BY THE WAY IT DOESN'T STOP WITH THE MAYOR OF
LONDON.
WHEN TRUMP DECIDED TO PULL OUT OF THE PARIS CLIMATE
ACCORD HE GAVE A SPEECH WHERE HE
DECIDED TO ATTACK INDIA.
LET ME GIVE YOU HIS QUOTE.
THAT WAS ALL
BASED ON COMPLETE LIES.
HERE IS WHAT THE TRUTH IS, INDIA DOES
PRODUCE CO2 EMISSIONS, LARGELY
DUE TO ITS OIL ñ COAL USE.
THEY ARE SPECIFICALLY PART OF THIS
CLIMATE AGREEMENT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO LESSEN THEIR DEPENDENCE
ON COAL.
IN TERMS OF RECEIVING BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS?
I DON'T
KNOW WHERE HE GOT THAT FROM.
ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT THIS
CLIMATE ACCORD IS THAT COUNTRIES TO PARTICIPATE DO GET SOME
FINANCIAL HELP IN MOVING TOWARD RENEWABLE ENERGY.
IT COULD HELP
CREATE JOBS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY.
IN OTHER WORDS, INTELLIGENT
WORLD LEADERS WANT TO BE PART OF THIS BECAUSE THEY REALIZE THERE
ARE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO MOVE TOWARD RENEWABLE ENERGY, CREATE
MORE JOBS, AND IMPROVE THE ECONOMY OF THAT COUNTRY.
BUT
DONALD TRUMP IS TOO MUCH OF AN IDIOT TO REALIZE THAT AND
INSTEAD DECIDES TO
MISCHARACTERIZE INDIA AND ALSO ATTACK ANOTHER COUNTRY FOR NO
REASON AT ALL.
IN PER CAPITA TERMS THEIR POLLUTION IS THERE 128TH MOST
POLLUTING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE REPUBLIC OF
MOLDOVA.
IT'S AMAZING.
NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO IT IS GOING
TO HAVE BIG EFFECTS.
IF THEY DO RELY ON COAL IT'S GOING TO BE
BAD.
WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO
EASE OR SPEED UP THE PROCESS.
YOU CAN DO IT FOR THAT REASON OR
BECAUSE IT IS BETTER OVERALL.
THE BURDEN ON THE US TO LOWER
OUR CARBON EMISSIONS WILL BE LESS IF WE CAN ASSIST ALL OTHER
COUNTRIES IN ACHIEVING THEIR
GOALS AND EXCEEDING THEM.
DONALD TRUMP SAYING IT IS A BAD DEAL ñ
THERE IS NO ONE TO RENEGOTIATE WITH.
EVERY COUNTRY SETS ITS OWN STANDARDS.
IT'S NOT EVEN REALLY A DEAL.
IT IS LIKE A NONBINDING
COMMITMENT THAT ALL OF THESE
COUNTRIES MADE ESSENTIALLY SAYING WE CARE ABOUT THE
ENVIRONMENT AND WANT TO MOVE
TOWARD SAVING IT.
I DON'T THINK HE EVEN KNOWS OR HAS ANY IDEA
WHAT THAT AGREEMENT ENTAILED.
THERE IS A LOT OF ANALOGIES BUT IT'S LIKE IVANKA COMES HOME
AND SAYS DAD I WANT TO GO TO A
PURITY BALL.
LIKE, YOU SIGN UP FOR A SECRET SANTA ñ IT'S A BAD
DEAL.
JACKASS IT'S A VOLUNTARY THING.
THE GOOD NEWS IS OUT OF INDIA IS THEY HAVE A GOAL OF 40%
RENEWABLE BY 2030, THEY ARE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE TO MEET THAT.
AND WHAT HAS HELPED HIM IS THAT SOLAR IS NOW CHEAPER THAN COAL.
SO IT'S GOING TO BE HAPPENING.
AND FOR THOSE WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED BY THE COAL
INDUSTRY AND YOU LOST YOUR JOB BECAUSE WE ARE MOVING AWAY FROM
COAL, WE GET IT.
CHANGE IS DIFFICULT WHEN IT AFFECTS YOUR
ABILITY TO PROVIDE.
BUT TRUMP IS HURTING YOU BECAUSE THOSE COAL
JOBS ARE NOT COMING BACK BECAUSE COAL IS SO EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE
TO PRODUCE.
CREATING THOSE JOBS IS SO INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT AND
UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE A MISGUIDED PRESIDENT WHO WAS
MOVING AWAY FROM ANY TYPE OF PROGRESS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE
MADE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
I THINK THE BIGGEST THING HOLDING BACK THE GROWTH OF THE
SOLAR INDUSTRY IS THAT THE
PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE SOLAR INDUSTRY WORKERS ARE NOT COAL
WORKERS.
IT IS AN INDUSTRY THAT EMPLOYS AS MUCH AS A COUPLE OF
ARBY'S.
THEY HAVE PEOPLE AND HAVE VALUE AND NEED TO BE LOOKED
OUT FOR AND RETRAINED, BUT THEIR
INFLUENCE IN AMERICAN POLITICS ñ THERE IS NOTHING MORE OUTSIZED
THAN THE INFLUENCE OF THE COAL
INDUSTRY.
I READ TESLA IS HIRING MORE PEOPLE THAN THE ENTIRE COAL
INDUSTRY.
IS THAT A HOW YOU SAY IT?
DAMN MY MOUTH.
HE SAID TEZLA.