Musk quits as Trump continues scorched earth policy
Musk says he did all he could do to convince Trump to stay in the Paris climate accord
Tesla Inc chief executive Elon Musk and Walt Disney Co chief executive Robert Iger said on Thursday they would leave White House advisory councils after US President Donald Trump said he would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord. Trump decided to pull the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement designed to fight climate change despite entreaties from US allies and corporate leaders in an action that fulfilled a major campaign pledge. “Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk said in a Twitter post. He is a member of the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum, a business advisory group, and Trump’s manufacturing jobs council. Musk said on Wednesday that he had done “all I can” to convince Trump to stay in the accord, and threatened to leave the presidential advisory councils if Trump announced a US exit from the accord. Iger wrote on Twitter that “as a matter of principle, I’ve resigned from the President’s C...
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