Since this past weekend's London Bridge attack, the President of the United States has shared unconfirmed reports on Twitter, used the event to lobby the Supreme Court to overturn a rejection of his "travel ban" (and probably undermined his lawyers' efforts in the process), attacked the mayor of London by quoting him out of context, and completed his 22nd round of golf in his 19 weeks in office. According to Politico, during the golf outing at his Virginia golf club—site of the "River of Blood"—President Trump was overheard talking about his decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement:

This is the kind of critical thinking Bobby Moynihan's Drunk Uncle might bring to SNL's "Weekend Update." It displays such an awe-inspiring ignorance, such a profound incuriosity about the world and science and how things actually work, that it serves only to reinforce Jon Favreau's quip that we've elected a low-information voter president. Trump is the entrenched Fox News viewer, aging and steadily consumed by the vertigo of the spin zone as he tries to make sense of a changing world by dismissing experts as elitists and seeking the simplest possible reasoning that reinforces his preexisting viewpoint.

Climate does not equal weather.

The non-reliability of your local weatherman has fuck-all to do with the scientific consensus that climate change is real, man-made, and will have disastrous consequences for human civilization if we do not find a way to combat it. This climate-denial-by-personal-weather-experience trope is so tired and boneheaded that it's already been parodied too many times to count:

Hopefully, more than one factor went into the president's decision. For instance, some reports hold that Trump's personal beef with French President Emmanuel Macron also helped to tip him towards leaving the agreement—and produced that silly "Pittsburgh not Paris" line. Pittsburgh voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, and the sparsely-attended rally Trump's campaign organized to celebrate his anti-French shtick was held in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square, named for the Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American revolution and a well-known French guy.

But how was the weather?

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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