But much of what he said doesn’t hold water. In fact, it seemed at times that his speech was straight out of a criticism of a 1997 Climate Agreement the U.S. also joined but then withdrew from: the Kyoto Protocol.*
From the legal aspects of the treaty itself, to the effects on U.S. jobs and eco**mic growth, Trump’s address was, as one former U.N. official put it, “factually sooo incorrect.”*