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When President Donald Trump visits the UN on Monday, many of his fellow world leaders will be participating in a summit meant to address climate change. Trump won't be there. Instead, the President is chairing his own session focused on worldwide religious persecution.
It's the latest evidence of Trump's isolation on the climate issue with his fellow world leaders. During the G7 summit in France, Trump skipped a session focused on climate change that all the other world leaders attended. This time, he's missing an event that will feature dozens of world leaders delivering climate pledges in short remarks. It's unlikely Trump would have been asked to speak even if he wanted to.
Marcia Bernicat, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs, will represent the United States at the UN Secretary General's Climate Summit, a State Department official says.
Instead of the climate summit, Trump will convene a session on worldwide religious persecution that his aides are characterizing as the centerpiece of his visit to the UN next week. The sessions will overlap. According to the draft agenda, China's representative will speak at the climate summit around the same time Trump's religious persecution event is getting underway.
"This event seeks to highlight and broaden international support for protecting religious freedom in the wake of increasing persecution of people on the basis of their own beliefs and faiths, and a growing number of attacks on and destruction of houses of worship, religious sites, and relics by state and nonstate actors," a senior administration official told reporters on Friday during a briefing call about Trump's UN trip.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/20/politics/trump-un-climate-summit-religious-persecution-session/index.html
Doodley
(9,092 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Maybe just set aside a janitor closet don't think this one will require many seats.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)gaveling in a meeting that no one is attending.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Sit there and talk about how his election victory in 2016 was the greatest of all time??
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,999 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)I doubt Teflon Don will focus on that reality in his silly meeting.
Many Native cultures considered the Earth and its waterways holly. I don't think Teflon Don will focus on those long-term oppressed religions either.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)being representatives from Muslim nations.
I would LOVE to see the look on his face when he enters a conference hall full of people from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar, UAR...
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)There is no persecutions of christians in this country. Because fundies want to control what other people believe say and do, People get rightfully angry at them.
I hate thier religion personally,from being involved in it seeing the corruption,power trips and how sick it is. I didn't last long being a crazy Evangelical mess.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)trump talking about anything religious is absurd. He will probably say he's the most religious person in the history of the world.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Unable to think of one,
he said:
"All of them".