US President Donald Trump faced a global tongue-lashing as big business and leaders in China and Europe united to condemn him for his decision to pull the US out of the 2015 Paris climate accord. In a sign of how Trump's nationalist vision is shaking old geopolitical assumptions, the leaders of the EU and China, backed by India and Japan, pledged to unite to save what German Chancellor Angela Merkel called "our Mother Earth", and announced they would fully implement the Paris deal despite Washington's decision. On Wall Street, corporate executives pilloried the businessman president. Goldman Sachs's CEO tweeted for the first time, calling the move a setback for the world. Tesla's Elon Musk and Bob Iger of Walt Disney quit a White House advisory council in protest. The mayor of Pittsburgh - a city Trump highlighted as a beneficiary of his decision to turn his back on the global pact - vowed to abide by the Paris agreement. Trump's decision leaves him more alienated than ever, isolate...
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