President Donald Trump drew pockets of laughter and a few moans with his blunt comments to an international audience while appearing by video link Thursday at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. His return to the White House this week also shaped other sessions, from a panel on tariffs to a fiery speech by Javier Milei , the brash president of Argentina.
Trump is no stranger to the Davos meeting, where CEOs, startup visionaries, government leaders, world-class academics and other elites gather in the snowy Swiss town of Davos each January. He came twice during his first term. The executive orders Trump signed upon starting second term on Monday fed the chatter in the Davos Congress Center corridors all week.
They included withdrawing the U. Addressing the Davos audience on Thursday, Trump stressed that his administration favored more U. Trump also warned the European leaders and executives in attendance that NATO allies should not expect to be immune from U. And they do treat the United States of America very, very unfairly with the bad taxes and all of the other taxes they impose. She noted that countries backed off from using import taxes to manage trade after the experience of the Great Depression, when tariffs deepened the global downturn.
If the U. He slammed social welfare, feminism, identity politics and the fight against climate change. It is the cancer that must be cut out. Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. The mountains above the village of Davos, where the annual meeting of World Economic Forum will take place, are covered with snow, in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan.
