Two dozen Pittsburgh-area lawmakers took out a full-page advertisement after President Donald Trump thrust the city into the national spotlight during a speech last week about withdrawing the country from the Paris climate pact.

The advertisement, with a photograph of Pittsburgh, tells Trump that he is not representing the city by abandoning the agreement.

“Pittsburghers overwhelmingly support action on climate change,” the advertisement states. “We want to grow clean energy jobs and a strong economy. We want our families to breath healthy air and reduce pollution.”

“And we want to leave a healthy and safe planet where we've addressed and solved climate change — for our kids and future generations,” it states.

In a speech last week announcing the United States' abandonment of the pact, Trump said: “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”

The statement invoked an immediate response on social media from Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, who later said during a news conference that he was “personally offended” that Trump used the city as an example.

Peduto noted that Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly defeated Trump among city voters in the November election.

Allegheny County Elections Division records show Clinton collected 74.8 percent of the 155,104 votes cast by Pittsburghers, compared with 20.6 percent for Trump.

Peduto was joined in signing the advertisement — which said lawmakers hope to be leaders in tackling climate change — by state legislators who represent the area, members of Allegheny County council and Pittsburgh council, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and county controller Chelsa Wagner.

Note: This story has been edited to correct that the ad appeared in the New York Times.

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