Pittsburg offended by President Trump

Donald J. Trump said he wants to represent the people of Pittsburgh... But the Mayor of the city strongly disagrees.

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00:00I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.

00:11I was outraged that the president would use the city of Pittsburgh as the comparison.

00:21What we're doing is we're showing that Pittsburgh is the example.

00:25We were that city that China is like today, where the smoke filled the air so much that the streetlights would stay on 24 hours.

00:35We were that city that created the first Clean Air Act in American history, decades before there was an EPA.

00:43And during the 1980s and the 1990s, when we finally said our future economy may not be based upon big manufacturing,

00:52we were able to turn the corner and build a new economy.

00:56Pittsburgh is the poster child of showing why the Paris Agreement is good economics for the United States.

01:05And what we did today sets us back decades.