[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s easy to distill Donald Trump’s decision on the Paris Climate Agreement down to the fact that, like a coddled toddler, he ascertained that as president no one could make him do it.

Easy to deduce that, like a smart 3-year-old, he rejected peas and carrots because, yuck.

The thing is, if that was Trump’s mindset, he’d have explained it in terms any 3-year-old could understand.

Instead, Trump laid out his decision with a whole bunch of words that amounte...