OF COURSE THE GAME IS RIGGED: How Obama Is ‘Trump-Proofing’ His Climate Pact.

[Obama “climate envoy” Jonathan] Pershing is now trying to lock in the U.S. side of the accord, which requires all nations to develop public plans detailing how they would cut carbon emissions through at least 2025. Oddly enough, Trump’s own hand-picked new energy czar, Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, agrees that his boss can do only so much damage. Cramer, in an interview with me in late May, was notably noncommittal when I asked him if Trump would simply renege on the Paris accord. He noted that Trump has said at a minimum that he’d “renegotiate” it, and he made the point that this is how Trump has approached past business negotiations, starting from an extreme position.

“I think you might see him pivot away” from his hard-line stance on scrapping the agreement altogether, Cramer told POLITICO.

It’s worrisome that Trump is signaling that he’ll back down before he even gets to the negotiating table, but then again we’ve seen this move before.