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DENVER, the United States, June 4-- U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of withdrawal from the Paris Accord has caused a firestorm at home and led to big companies' revolt, analysts said. "It goes against smart, profitable economics, smart international policy, against American global leadership, and against ethical and moral stewardship of our planet," said Washington, D.C. political insider David B. Richardson, an attorney who worked on Capitol Hill in the 1980s. The withdrawal from the world's pre-eminent climate control agreement - signed in Paris in 2017 by 197 countries - met with widespread and growing disdain from American businesses. Leaving the Paris agreement "has no benefit other than pandering to the conservative movement's ideological opposition to multilateralism and environmental regulation," wrote Ben Adler Saturday in a Washington Post article. America's 45th president narrowly won the 2016 election with a pro-business "Make America Strong" theme. But when he ignored even conservative, pro-fossil fuel burning oil giants ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, who supported the Paris Agreement, he walked into a minefield, political pundits told Xinhua. Since the president's announcement of withdrawal Thursday, a number of famous American business jumped away from offering support to his decision. On Friday, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank wrote in the Baltimore Sun, "I disagree with the decision to exit the Paris Accord." | 
