The Washington Post believes they’ve isolated the exact moment when President Trump decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement: “The handshake”:
The final straw for the "Paris Accord" apparently was when the French leader boasted he bested Trump at handshakes. https://t.co/YP8CoNNwDa
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 2, 2017
Brit Hume spotted some shoddy “journalism” rearing its ugly head yet again:
That claim is based on pure innuendo slipped into the last paragraphs of a "news story." https://t.co/ebV5FVYWWm
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 3, 2017
Is this journalism-y enough to qualify as fact?
“My handshake was not innocent,” Macron said. He likened Trump to a pair of authoritarian strongmen — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and said that he was purposefully forceful because he believed his encounter with Trump was “a moment of truth.”
Hearing smack-talk from the Frenchman 31 years his junior irritated and bewildered Trump, aides said.
A few days later, Trump got his revenge. He proclaimed from the Rose Garden, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”
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Forget that Trump said all during the campaign he’d pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement if he got elected — it must have been the handshake!
https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/871046165218951168
https://twitter.com/DanaJo114/status/871076384440852480
Writers for major news media outlets have regressed to adolescence. The things they come up with take me back to hall talk in 8th grade.
— Jim Deimler (@JimDeimler) June 3, 2017
Right after the French leader said the Washington Post was a legit news source.
— Mark Greenhalgh (@GolfShopGreeny) June 3, 2017
The Trump era has clearly marked the end of real journalism as we knew it. https://t.co/soogLnxTn5
— A Crude Awakening (@allengilmer) June 3, 2017
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