A battered and bruised Trump—PS It poster—clearly meant to convey: "You guys trying to mess with me, just wait and see."
Russian President Vladimir Putin also responded to the leak incident.
At a joint press conference, he said: "Intelligence secrets? Why didn't my foreign minister tell me?"
"I have to criticize (Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov), because he didn't share any intelligence secrets with me."
"He not only didn't share with me, but also didn't share with any Russian intelligence agencies—he's just too bad!"
Putin said this with a straight face, even tapping his pen on the table.
The over a hundred Russian officials below, including Lavrov, burst into laughter.
Putin added: "If the U.S. needs it, Russia is willing to provide records of Trump's meeting with Lavrov."
He also believed: "U.S. media reports about Trump leaking secrets to Russia are manifestations of escalating political divisions."
Trump, meanwhile, began a series of foreign visits, clearly to temporarily evade domestic public scrutiny.
When the guy returned, he immediately announced in the White House Rose Garden: "The United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement."
Researchers and scientists, after assessing the impact of Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, concluded: If the U.S. exits this climate accord involving nearly 200 countries, it will create a domino effect on other nations restricting fossil fuel pollution. This will make humanity's efforts to prevent climate catastrophe nearly impossible and extremely costly.
At the same time, as soon as this news broke, U.S. stocks collectively surged—especially energy stocks, heavy industry stocks, chemical stocks, and so on.
The three major U.S. indices once again hit new closing highs collectively—
The Dow Jones rose 0.64%, closing at 21,144.18. The S&P 500 rose 0.76%, closing at 2,430.06. The Nasdaq rose 0.78%, closing at 6,246.83.
Europe's three major indices also rose together the next day—
The FTSE 100 rose 0.32%, closing at 7,543.77. France's CAC 40 rose 0.66%, closing at 5,318.67. Germany's DAX 30 rose 0.4%, closing at 12,664.92.
Martin, who got the news early, made a killing in the stock market.
Interestingly, after Trump announced this decision, over 60 U.S. city mayors—representing over 36 million Americans, including Los Angeles, New York, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, and others—issued a joint statement.
The statement said: "They do not welcome President Trump's actions and will accept, respect, and strictly adhere to the goals pledged in the Paris Agreement."
At the same time, Trump's decision also sparked dissatisfaction from many U.S. business leaders.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Disney CEO Bob Iger both announced they would resign from presidential advisory committees.
Taking similarly tough stances were tech giants like Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others.
Martin, who quietly profited in the stock market, similarly joined the chorus of condemnation—after all, in this era, "environmental protection" is political correctness.
"Ivanka, tell your father not to mind; anyway, so many people already oppose him—it doesn't matter if there's one more like me, right?"
"Hmph, anyway, he's very angry."
"Really? Then maybe I can help solve some unemployed workers again?"
"How many?"
"Fifty—no, a hundred thousand."
"Two hundred thousand."
"Deal."
Guinea, with its rapidly developing heavy and light industries, had an almost limitless demand for skilled labor. If not for balancing the numbers of whites, blacks, domestically, he could swallow up all U.S. unemployed workers in one gulp—including their families.
What's a million or so people, anyway?
Three days after announcing U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Trump met with congressional Republicans to unveil a new ploy for building the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
According to two attending lawmakers, the president proposed installing solar panels on the border wall as a way to fund the project.
Building the U.S.-Mexico border wall was one of Trump's core campaign promises.
He believed the wall could prevent illegal Mexican immigrants from entering the U.S. and combat drug smuggling, with costs to be borne by Mexico.
After the "wall-building" idea met fierce opposition from Mexican leaders, Trump changed tack in January, implying the U.S. would front the project costs, to be reimbursed by Mexico later.
But to this day, the project hadn't received any congressional funding, and due to opposition from Democratic lawmakers and some Republicans, the border wall's future was full of uncertainties.
An attendee said details on installing solar panels on the wall were unclear, but the general idea was that revenue from selling the solar-generated energy could cover construction costs.
The White House spokesperson did not immediately comment on the matter.
...
"What the fuck!"
In the Meyers Films office, Drew was browsing online news when she suddenly saw a hugely viral video on Facebook.
The video's content shocked her—she immediately called Martin.
"Darling, I sent you a link—go online and check it quick. Your father-in-law's in trouble again."
Martin had just wrapped a scene when he got Drew's call.
After hanging up, he told the actors to rest a bit, then opened his laptop.
Washington.
Trump was raging in his office: "Fuck fuck fuck, that bitch-raised woman—I never messed with her, I never messed with her, that damn bitch."
His aides sat around a computer, watching that viral video.
One angrily said: "This woman's just riding the hype—she wants to get famous by outrageous acts against you, Mr. President."
Trump fumed: "She won't get away with it—a fourth-tier little Hollywood starlet dares to make a spectacle of me. No, this isn't a joke—this is character assassination, slander, a threat."
Trump's chief of staff said gravely: "I'll make some calls, Mr. President. I guarantee this woman will pay dearly for her actions."
Washington, Clinton villa.
Hillary watched the video on her computer, laughing uproariously.
"This Kathy Griffin actress is brilliant—where'd she come from?"
Clinton, standing behind her, replied: "I know this woman—she has some fame in Hollywood, mainly from outrageous statements and behavior to grab attention. Plus, she's a Democrat supporter."
"You know her? Not your handiwork, is it?" Hillary asked.
Clinton shook his head: "I'd never be that stupid."