New York mayor on Germany trip: Trump doesn't represent Americans
Facing widespread criticism over his decision to fly to Hamburg just after the shooting death of a Bronx police officer, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Americans’ views don’t align with President Trump’s and need to be represented abroad.
“While the national governments will probably only make limited progress, the rest of us don’t have that choice. If we make only limited progress we’ll only be going backwards,” de Blasio told Bloomberg before speaking at a Saturday protest that coincides with the Group of 20 summit attended by Trump and other world leaders in Germany. “We almost have Washington as an island at this point, unrepresentative of the views of the American people on many levels, and that’s going to take a different kind of politics to address.”
De Blasio’s speech at the protest, called “Hamburg Shows Attitude,” reflected a similar theme of citizens and localities defying the policies of the national government, specifically on issues such as climate change and marriage equality.
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“American cities are signed on to the Paris Accords. We will do it ourselves,” de Blasio said at the rally, according to tweets from his spokesman, Eric Phillips. He and other mayors from across the United States have vowed to uphold the Paris agreement, sidestepping Trump after he withdrew the country from the climate deal.
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