Politico: Trump fear and loathing in Davos
The ‘globalists’ gathered in the Swiss Alps don’t know whether to cry, panic or laugh about the incoming American president.
DAVOS, Switzerland — At a closed-door session at the World Economic Forum, one of the panelists asked the self-styled global elite in the audience a question: How many of you think Donald Trump won’t even finish one term in the White House?
About half the hands shot up. “There’s a lot of wishful thinking about Trump here,” deadpanned Moisés Naím, the former editor of Foreign Policy magazine, who posed the question.
Neither Trump — nor, aside from a brief appearance by Anthony Scaramucci, any of his advisers — is mixing it up with the liberal cosmopolitan crowd at Davos this year. But, even with an agenda packed with Brexit and Syria and migration crises and big elections coming in Europe this year, the new American president is sucking up most of the thin Alpine air.
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