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Donald Trump Advisory Council Loses Tesla Founder Elon Musk

By Sanjoy Alexander

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: U.S. President Donald Trump (C) greets Wendell Weeks (R) of Corning, Elon Musk of SpaceX (L) and other other business leaders as he arrives for a meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Business leaders included Elon Musk of SpaceX, Wendell Weeks of Corning, Mark Sutton of International Paper, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical, Alex Gorsky of Johnston
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: U.S. President Donald Trump (C) greets Wendell Weeks (R) of Corning, Elon Musk of SpaceX (L) and other other business leaders as he arrives for a meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Business leaders included Elon Musk of SpaceX, Wendell Weeks of Corning, Mark Sutton of International Paper, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical, Alex Gorsky of Johnston /
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He was a surprising addition to the Advisory Council of President Donald Trump. But there are no surprises in Tesla founder Elon Musk’s exit from the team.

Tesla founder Elon Musk wasn’t that pleased with the decision taken by Donald Trump administration to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. In fact he had made it pretty much evident that if the US doesn’t sign the same, he’ll quit from the President’s Advisory Council. Musk is a man of his and has just done that.

He posted multiple tweets on his Twitter account to let everyone know about his exit from the Advisory Council. The updates more or less give a clear picture on the Tesla founder’s attempts to advise the government on the real dangers of climate change and on why US shouldn’t back off from signing the agreement.

Over the course of the tweets, you’ll see that Elon Musk was fighting a losing battle as the Trump administration’s move ended up in making the US join Syria and Nicaragua to become the third country which refused to sign the agreement.

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 23: U.S. President Donald Trump (C) greets Wendell Weeks (R) of Corning, Elon Musk of SpaceX (L) and other other business leaders as he arrives for a meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Business leaders included Elon Musk of SpaceX, Wendell Weeks of Corning, Mark Sutton of International Paper, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical, Alex Gorsky of Johnston
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 23: U.S. President Donald Trump (C) greets Wendell Weeks (R) of Corning, Elon Musk of SpaceX (L) and other other business leaders as he arrives for a meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Business leaders included Elon Musk of SpaceX, Wendell Weeks of Corning, Mark Sutton of International Paper, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical, Alex Gorsky of Johnston /

Musk’s announcement happened after President Trump made his speech at the White House Rose Garden, declaring the US exit from the Paris Agreement. The President said:

"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris. As of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the nonbinding Paris accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country."

Elon Musk’s exit from the Advisory Council to the President is one among the many hits that the Donald Trump took in the week gone by.

Trump’s call to exit the Paris climate accord also made another major player leave the Advisory Council – Disney’s Robert Iger.

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In addition to all of that, the general response from industry leaders and governors hasn’t been in the President’s favor.

Given the structure and language of the accord, it may take a while for US to completely exit the agreement, which would be somewhere around the time the Donald Trump administration concludes its term. But once the decision is taken, companies which don’t wish to follow the terms mentioned in the current agreement will start dialing down their initiatives which are in place to address the climate change issue.

President Donald Trump on the other hand has stood his ground and said that he is open to negotiate a new climate deal which is more fair to the US than one which is going to cost the country both jobs and businesses.

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Many have come out on social media and in press, expressing their share of disapproval to the US government’s stance on the critical issue of combating climate change.

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