…President Trump just arrived. @Davos #WEF2018 #Trump pic.twitter.com/8jCexMxrxz
— Ingrid Römer (@die_Roemerin) January 25, 2018
trailed by Mark Meadows, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the House Freedom Caucus. https://t.co/h0gnrD2O4t
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 25, 2018
Politico, “The buffoon presidency”:
However much the typical Davos habitué disagrees with Trump’s rhetoric on free trade and global integration, these are supremely practical types. One year into Trump, they are accommodating themselves to a changed power reality.
Across the spectrum, it seems evident that the pleas of Trump critics in the United States — don’t normalize an abnormal presidency — have been rejected by the government and industry leaders who congregate at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in the Alps…
Aside from Trump’s incendiary bluster, many say, the actual consequences of his presidency have been more agreeable (or less disagreeable) than they feared a year ago. This is especially true in business circles, where people note that both the U.S and European economies are purring nicely.
There is a wider group of people, dominated by political types, who say the Trump presidency is just as offensive as they always thought but has come with an alluring benefit: The chance for other nations to fill a power vacuum left by a U.S. retreat from global leadership…
Trump wins over global elites at Davos. All it took was a $1.5 trillion tax cut. https://t.co/Swm1RX2xVM
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) January 26, 2018
Great news! The one percenters of Davos are humoring our President. Also, the doomsday clock clicked ahead 30 seconds because of him. But the rich love him is the important thing.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 25, 2018
Hey, cry the Trumpistas, who let *that* chick in here?!?…
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, used the stage at the World Economic Forum on Thursday to send a message to President Trump and other powerful men on the state of gender equality in today’s world.
When asked what her message to “someone like Trump” would be, Yousafzai, the 20-year-old women’s empowerment activist, said she was “so disappointed to see that people in high positions talk about women in unequal terms and do not accept them as equals.”
Responding to another question about Trump’s record on women’s rights and the allegations of harassment and abuse that have been leveled against him, Yousafzai replied that ″it is just shocking for a second to believe that this is actually happening . . . I hope that women stand up and speak out against it.”…
Much more to their taste: Elain Chao, aka Mrs. Mitch McConnell:
Trump official tells Davos attendees they "can leave" if they don't want to listen to Trump: https://t.co/GYYCRGEE4T pic.twitter.com/BihmIPKEBo
— The Hill (@thehill) January 25, 2018
*That’s* the big-gauche-untrainable-man-baby enablers everyone recognizes!
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