Trump will hold session on religious persecution instead of attending UN climate summit

[left-of-center2012]

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]

1. By the president who wanted to ban an anyone from an entire religion from entering America.

[jcgoldie]

2. Who the fuck will attend a meeting on well anything chaired by Trump?

Maybe just set aside a janitor closet don't think this one will require many seats.

[Mike 03]

5. I hope this is live streamed because it will be funny to see Trump

gaveling in a meeting that no one is attending.

[jcgoldie]

9. Seriously whats he even gonna say?

Sit there and talk about how his election victory in 2016 was the greatest of all time??

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. Teflon Don will hire foolish climate-change deniers to attend.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Pander Bear

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Lemme guess--only one religion is being oppressed. Right?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. In the US Muslims face discrimination and oppression...

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]

12. Karma would be having the only attendees at his session...

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]

14. I'd like to see the look on his face when an Iranian shoots him!

[Freethinker65]

6. The rights to be an adulterous lying guilty of hubris glutton must be protected, so sayeth Trump

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. There is no persecutions .

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]

10. trump thinks all religions are good as long as they are Christian.

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]

11. Trump was asked once what his favorite Bible verse is

Unable to think of one,
he said:
"All of them".

[tblue37]

15. Is he concerned about religious persecution of Muslims? nt