MORNING GLORY: Trump uses Davos to showcase American strength and shake the global order
The ‘America’s Newsroom’ panel discusses President Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum, Greenland’s importance to global security and more.
When President Donald Trump agreed to address the "World Economic Forum" in Davos, he rescued that gathering from looming irrelevance — at least for a year. If the president of the United States attends a forum, the world’s collective attention will turn to it.
The American public usually squints at this collection of would-be world big wigs — drawn from the world’s wealthiest, who are mostly not from our republic, but talking about it and how it and the world should work — and doesn’t like that look at all.
But President Trump came with some of his "A Team" on international economic and security matters, and Made Davos Great Again. People tuned in.
Two comments stood out to me. On the president’s desire to acquire Greenland, he did make one thing very clear: "I won’t use force." That simple statement buoyed markets around the world which had imagined some sort of intra-NATO kinetic conflict and panicked on Tuesday. That’s not going to happen, though the president has made it very clear he will use all levers open to him. "You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative," the president said regarding Greenland. "You can say no, and we will remember," he added. Message sent and received.
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