The Indoor Man in the White House
In withdrawing the United States from the historic Paris Agreement, Donald Trump rewrote the future of the Earth’s climate.
Editor’s Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.
On the afternoon of June 1, 2017, a spectacular summer day with a wide-open sky and copious buttery sunlight, President Donald Trump stood squinting in the Rose Garden, and rewriting the future of the seasons.
“As of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the nonbinding Paris accord—and the draconian financial and
