Trump Is Ready to Pull Another Fast One. The president's trip to Davos has three serious issues.

[DonViejo]

BY RICH BENJAMIN
JAN 23, 2018

Davos, the tony, infamous yearly conference, kicks off today. President Trump is scheduled to speak later in the week, joining leaders of other countries including Canada, France, Brazil, Italy, India, and Norway. Members of the global ruling class descend on the small ski-resort town in the Swiss Alps each January to preen, hobnob, and debate "fixing" the world. Ordinary attendees typically fly first class to Zurich then take chartered buses or a glittery Mercedes to the conference lair. Even fancier guests, including 2018 attendees like Paypal CEO Dan Schulman, UPS CEO David Abney, and Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, typically zip to Zurich via private jet then connect to a helicopter for the half-hour glide over the Alps. How you arrive to Davos, what panel you appear on, where you stay—it's all about status.

Right-wingers see a plump piñata in Davos. One of the final ads of the 2016 campaign season showed footage of George Soros speaking at a World Economic Forum event as Trump’s voiceover berated “elite global special interests” for betraying American workers. “The working men and women in the world are just tired of being dictated to by what we call the party of Davos,” Bannon said in his own major speech years before. And Breitbart has noted, “Although Davos’ published goal is ‘improving the state of the world,’ those are often words for elites crafting world governance.”

Why would Trump lend his time and effort to this gathering of unapologetic internationalists who favor open borders, free trade, and globalization? As White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered, “Trump welcomes the opportunity to go there and advance his America First agenda with world leaders.” I expect Trump to crash the Davos party with told-you-so glee, like a cranky, braggy salesman able to work a captive audience of frenemy peers. Trump will play the rich, prominent people he says he disdains and secretly admires. I expect Trump to use Davos as a unique, lofty platform to evangelize his agenda, much as he used his 2017 NATO speech in Brussels to browbeat European nations into springing more for their defense. (The speech was met with a sour reception.)

A "new Trump" will not suddenly emerge on the world stage this week. Beware of the coverage. Here are three ways the president will merely hoodwink the global elite the same way he played millions of Americans during the 2016 election.

1) Trump's highly-hyped new tax cuts are aimed squarely at his golf club base, not average American workers.

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2) Trump’s prejudices—namely his sexism and racism—are anti-working class.

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3) Trump’s ‘victory lap’ is a head fake.

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Full article:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15840344/why-is-trump-in-davos

[RKP5637]

1. "... his America First agenda with world leaders" is a major negative for cooperation. IMO it

translates to I'm here to fuck over the rest of the world. Screw you.

[malaise]

5. He will learn

It suggests complete ignorance about the rest of the world but hey it is doofus we're dealing with here

[RKP5637]

6. He's so lame, he won't even get it when they tell him to F off. Damn, what a jerk. I wonder

if Melania is packing her bags yet to go back to NYC to get away from him. ... as he heads to Davos. I wish she could dump him somehow.

[C_U_L8R]

2. The Trump family harbors deep multi-generational resentments

For all their dollars, The Trumps have never been accepted by society.
Whether New York Society, Wall Street Society, Political Society, Global Society, etc...
The Trumps are boorish and tacky. Over-gilt nouveau riche nincompoops.
And boy, does Donny want to get even. He's such a self-absorbed simpleton that way.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Remember,40+% of these Tax Cuts

go to off shore Investors.

[Historic NY]

4. They all going to be taking bus's

avalanche warnings. El Blumpos going to be pissed.

Davos has been put on high alert after fresh snow smothered the Alps on the eve of the important gathering of business leaders, politicians and representatives from charities and non-government organisations.

But there are fears leaders could face difficulty getting around due to the snow.

The accumulation of snow is the highest the upmarket ski resort has seen since 1999 and authorities were last night forced to evacuate two dozen people from homes most at risk.



[link:https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/908534/Davos-2018-latest-update-live-WEF-world-economic-forum-trump-modi-webcam-trudeau|]

[Cha]

7. Interesting.. thank you

[Initech]

8. When you vote for a con artist, don't be surprised when you get conned.

[gratuitous]

9. Is this why the President doesn't have time for slide victims in California?

Just asking, don't want anyone getting all upset about what I might think about a public official so derelict in his duty.

[left-of-center2012]

10. What leader will Trump shove out of the way this time?