Trump Sidesteps UN Climate Circus For America First

November 3, 2025

By: Rayne Rant

Putting American workers and energy independence front and center, President Trump will not send high-level officials to the United Nations' COP30 climate summit in Brazil. This gathering, a playground for global elites pushing costly green mandates, will proceed without the taxpayer-funded entourage. It's a necessary break from decades of Washington D.C. playing global nanny and a clear signal; America will not participate, nor are we interested in footing the bill for virtue-signaling on the world stage in the name of unrealistic Net-Zero fantasies while China builds coal plants.

The White House announcement on November 1st pleased those of us who voted for Trump's "America First" agenda.  A senior official stated, "The President is directly engaging with leaders around the world on energy issues, which you can see from the historic trade deals and peace deals that all have a significant focus on energy partnerships."  The left may point fingers and cry “isolationism”, but it’s not.  This is a move that will create jobs instead of another UN white paper comprised of happy-talk and euphemisms, in an attempt to conceal the real agenda; an agenda based on turning Americans into “global citizens” (aka digitally controlled, data-generating slaves) without our knowledge or consent.

When President Trump returned to the Oval Office in January 2025, he signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement (for the second time) calling it the "unfair, one-sided rip-off" it truly is. That move, formalized under the banner "Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements," freed our nation from vague promises that strangle U.S. innovation while letting polluters like China skate free. The administration followed up by eliminating the State Department's Office of Global Change and firing the last of the federal climate negotiators—bureaucrats whose "work" amounted to little more than jet-setting to summits that line the pockets of international NGOs. The "Green New Scam" is a job-killing, freedom destroying disaster, antithetical to everything America stands for and thankfully, President Trump’s actions have slowed its rapid escalation.

Of course, the left is losing their collective, hive-mind as a result.  Outlets like The Guardian and AFP are wringing their hands over "lost global leadership" and fretting that China's shadow looms large.  The real story that no one is talking about? COP30's leaders' summit has drawn fewer than 60 heads of state—hardly a ringing endorsement of the UN's endless climate grift.  Even Xi Jinping is not showing up and choosing to send a deputy instead.  If Beijing wants to play green hegemon while firing up 300 coal plants a year, let them have at it.  America's absence starves the summit's anti-energy zealots of our cash and credibility, forcing them to confront their own failed fantasies.

Back home, the federal retreat hasn't left America idle on energy.  States like Texas and Pennsylvania are drilling, creating hundreds of thousands of high-wage jobs and exporting affordable energy. Sure, over 100 governors and mayors from blue states will jet off to Brazil under the "America Is All In" banner, co-chaired by ex-EPA chief Gina McCarthy.  They'll enjoy patting each other on the back while virtue-signaling about local green schemes, but the real fact is, these weak efforts will never match Trump's national strategy of unleashing American strength and abundance.

Critics warn of a "power vacuum" handing China the reins (nonsense). Beijing's "leadership" is a wolf in green sheep's clothing; they're the world's top emitter, ramping up coal while attempting to lecture the West.  Trump's approach is the art of the deal; leverage our energy dominance to forge bilateral deals that sideline the UN's useless bureaucracy that merely exists to justify its own existence.  As COP30 kicks off, the U.S. skipping this event is a statement of American sovereignty and commitment to American prosperity and excellence which we will no longer apologize for.  

Trump's visions—drill baby drill and innovate everywhere—ensures we lead by example, not by edict. The world may wish to chase Net-Zero fantasies in Brazil, but America is building the future; affordable energy, secure borders, and unapologetic greatness.