So reading up the on the agreement, Trump is a complete idiot. He keeps on railing about renegotiating fairer terms for the US... but he doesn't realize that the Paris agreement targets were
completely voluntary.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...ate-agreement/
Even if his goal were to fix the economics for his blue-collar workers he could have just stayed in the agreement and submitted more lax targets and messed with the rest of the world.
Move stinks of just a distraction to throw people off the Trump-Russia scandal.