Trump will be first U.S. president in nearly 20 years to attend Davos global gathering of leaders and wealthy elite https://t.co/ROIpeozdKE
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 9, 2018
Look, this is what white working class voters in Ohio and Michigan wanted. https://t.co/BvAOF0h3DA
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 9, 2018
More likely, he just wants the real machers, the global Big Swinging Dicks, to finally acknowledge that he, Donald John Trump, is king of the world!!!…
And, of course, that is not gonna happen. The tweetstorm tantrums should be epic, though.
President Trump will address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this month, the White House said Tuesday, a startling decision that will bring the unorthodox U.S. leader face to face with global elites who have been Trump’s fierce critics and frequent foils.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump will use the forum to talk about his “America First” worldview. Trump has described the approach as the sensible prioritizing of American interests over those of other nations. His critics inside the United States and abroad call it a retreat from an American global leadership based on democratic principles…
She said details of the president’s attendance at the Jan. 23-to-26 gathering are being worked out, and it is not yet clear whether he will hold separate meetings with world leaders there. He does not expect to visit any other countries apart from Switzerland, Sanders said…
Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the Davos meeting in 2017, a first for a Chinese leader. Xi’s speech was praised as statesmanlike and a counterpoint to Trump’s criticism of international bodies and collective decision-making. Sanders said Xi’s attendance last year was not a factor in Trump’s decision to attend now.…
Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn was a frequent Davos attendee when he was a Wall Street banker. He skipped the gathering last year. Sanders said the delegation accompanying Trump is still a work in progress, but that some administration figures would be at the gathering for longer than Trump will stay. Cohn is likely to be among them.
“What the heck is Trump doing at Davos?” said MIT economist David Autor, who has been to Davos many times and is on several panels this year discussing his work on the impact of robots and trade on jobs. “Trump made fun of Davos. This is exactly the crowd he doesn’t want to talk to.”…
Funny enough, the person closest to Trump who was at Davos last year was Anthony Scaramucci
— Brett LoGiurato (@BrettLoGiurato) January 9, 2018
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