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President Trump’s greatest achievement was announcing the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement (& one day everyone will understand how huge that was).
it is said the withdrawal will not come into effect (due to UN tricks) until the day after the 2020 presidential election.
that is why Trump must win in 2020, although no-one has yet explained why the withdrawal wouldn’t come into effect during the transition period.

look at this Robert Orr guy, who is advisor to UN Sec-Gen Guterres, the Portuguese socialist:

10 Nov: UN News: UN chief appoints Luis Alfonso de Alba as Special Envoy for the 2019 Climate Summit
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on Friday the appointment of Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico as his Special Envoy for the 2019 Climate Summit…
Mr. de Alba will work closely with ***Robert Orr, Special Adviser on Climate Change, as well as Peter Thomson, Special Envoy for the Ocean, Michael Bloomberg, Special Envoy for Climate Action and other UN senior officials…
https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/11/1025441

2 June 2017: Baltimore Sun: If the president won’t move the U.S. forward, we will
By Robert C. Orr
(Robert C. Orr is dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland)
The final scene of the reality show that was President Donald Trump’s deliberations on the Paris climate agreement has aired. He is pulling the United States out. This decision represents a self-inflicted wound to the competitiveness and international standing of the U.S., threatening to move America from first to last. The Paris Agreement will survive, but will the U.S. economy?…

If the goal was to isolate the U.S. from the global community and the geostrategic center of gravity in the world, the president could find no better issue on which to stake his go-it-alone agenda. And alone he will be. The rest of the world is not waiting for — nor dependent on — the leadership of the U.S. administration…
In fact, the U.S. won’t be at the tables that matter — not the negotiating table, nor the deal-making tables...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-paris-trump-climate-20170604-story.html

14 Nov 2016: Uni of Maryland School of Public Policy: Making Democracy Work – An Open Letter from Dean (Robert C.) Orr
The populist electoral earthquake of 2016 has destabilized much of what we know, or thought we knew, about our country. The aftershocks are just beginning but will rattle us for months and years to come. While those who were excited to vote for the first woman president are perhaps the most shocked, so too are many of the President-elect’s supporters who didn’t expect victory, as are the Republican and Democratic establishments which have many questions to answer as well. People and countries around the world are just waking up to a brave new reality in which the United States could potentially play a significantly different role in the world from any they have seen since the Second World War.

The School of Public Policy and the University of Maryland is a ***non-partisan institution which takes no side in electoral contests. That said, it is safe to say this election has hit our community hard. We are in “Washington,” educated, diverse, coastal, cosmopolitan, internationalist, and generally think that government has an important role to play in crafting policy solutions to modern day problems and challenges. The President-elect campaigned overtly against all these things – and won. What one journalist prior to the election called a “civics lesson from Hell” has morphed into a potential validation of behaviors and attitudes that run against the grain not only of civil discourse, but also common decency and, in some instances, the law of the land.

I have heard from many in our community, especially our students, how personally you take this. I understand this. I do too. One of our students has shared that some students have withdrawn applications to work in government positions and others have even “begun questioning why they are getting this degree.” Why indeed?…

Finally, to the people of color, women, “undocumented,” international students, LGBTQ, and persons with disabilities in our community, please know that we as a united school family stand with you at this time of great angst and uncertainty. We will work with you to make our democracy work. No one will stand alone in this endeavor.
With greatest respect, solidarity, and commitment
Bob
https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/newsroom/current-students/making-democracy-work-open-letter-dean-orr