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Trump tweets about election results and skips session on pandemic during G20
The G20, or Group of 20, is an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 19 countries and the European Union, which collectively accounts for about 80% of world trade. The member states are Australia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, India, Russia, South Africa, China, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, the United States, and the EU. This year’s G20 was hosted by Saudi Arabia but held online due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ever since Trump took the president role of the United States, he has never taken this international meeting seriously and even absented himself from the 2019 G20 Osaka Summit. This year, even though little was expected of the world leaders’ summit, Trump hadn’t confirmed his participation until the evening before the conference. Furthermore, even though he did participate in his final summit on November 20, he sent tweets about his lost election results during the conference. After two hours, he left the meeting to play golf outside DC while other world leaders were still in the session. Sounds like a spoiled student, doesn’t it? Then on Sunday at a summit session on the environmental issue, he addressed his record on protecting the environment “historic” and attacked the Paris climate accord despite the fact that his administration has undermined regulation intended to reduce pollution generated in the United States.
Though he lost the November election, about 72 million voted for him in the United States of America.
Enjoy reading the article and think about the roles of the political leader especially at a difficult time like now.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/21/politics/trump-g20-saturday-sessions/index.html
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