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2019-01-23 Home Front: Politix
POS John Kerry Tells Davos Crowd Trump Should Resign
[Free Beacon] Former Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the only solution to President Donald Trump’s failures of leadership would be for him to resign.

CNBC's Tania Bryer interviewed Kerry, also a former senator from Massachusetts, for a CNBC-sponsored panel called "The Future of Our Oceans." Kerry focused on climate change in a highlight video from the panel posted by CNBC, in which he blasted Trump for pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement he helped negotiate during the Obama administration.

When he was pressed on what advice he would give Trump, Kerry questioned the premise that Trump would ever listen to him.

"I can’t play that," Kerry said, stuttering. "He doesn't take any of this seriously, he doesn’t have an ability to have that kind of conversation."

"What would your message be?" Bryer asked.

"Resign," he replied after stammering for a moment. The audience applauded loudly.

Beforehand, Kerry argued that the meaninglessness of the climate accords was what made Trump foolish to pull out. Kerry explained the agreement did not impose any actual burden on the United States, and therefore Trump could have stayed in without any trouble. However, Kerry also agreed that the future of the world was hanging in the balance.

"When the president says it puts a burden on us‐no. We are assuming a de minimis level of what we ought to be doing, and the burden that is being put on the people of the world as well as the United States is the burden of ignorance to science," he said.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Yes, Trump should resign. He simply isn't our sort of people, dear.
Posted by SteveS 2019-01-23 05:09||   2019-01-23 05:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I am sure Trump appreciates the encouragement and confirmation that he is on the right path to Make America Great.

I suspect not one agenda item at Davos outlined a positive aspect or proposed a positive American initiative.
Posted by Airandee 2019-01-23 06:14||   2019-01-23 06:14|| Front Page Top

#3 And he will - in 2024.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-23 06:59||   2019-01-23 06:59|| Front Page Top

#4 When a complete lying failure gigolo tells you to resign? You laugh in his Easter-Island-Statue face
Posted by Frank G 2019-01-23 08:36||   2019-01-23 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Image result for lurch of the addams family

I looked up hubris and hypocrisy in the dictionary and found JFnK's above pic. His hair was different then.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-23 09:04||   2019-01-23 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Kerry explained the agreement did not impose any actual burden on the United States, and therefore Trump could have stayed in without any trouble.

No actual burden? Some other kind of burden, perhaps? Did you just admitted virtue signalling is preferable to candor? I'm stunned.
Posted by Bobby 2019-01-23 12:09||   2019-01-23 12:09|| Front Page Top

#7 By some fluke of business scheduling I happened to be staying at one of Kerry's campaign hotels on election night in November 2004. It was pluperfect schadenfreude.
Posted by Matt 2019-01-23 12:34||   2019-01-23 12:34|| Front Page Top

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