Play of the Day: Despite Withdrawing the U.S. From the Paris Agreement, Coal Jobs Are Like 'Baywatch'
It doesn't matter how hard you try, you're not bringing these things back.
President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord last week, prompting late-might shows to joke about climate change and the president. Last Week Tonight's John Oliver joked that Trump was always skeptical of something named after the French capital and that the agreement would have been just as amenable to Trump as something titled "The Globalist Cuck Surrender" or "a light jog." Jimmy Kimmel noted that nearly every country in the world agreed to the Paris accord, save for Nicaragua and Syria… two nations who are not doing well.
The Daily Show's Trevor Noah noted that Trump was fulfilling a campaign promise that implied the Paris agreement was stifling heavy industrial jobs like steel production and coal power. However, Noah cited figures on coal's decline in lieu of clean energy investment. In a way, he joked, coal jobs "may have been big back in the day, but it's not going to work now. It's like Baywatch. You're not going to save it, no matter who you bring."