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Trump Speaks at Davos to the American People

Trump Speaks at Davos to the American People
President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
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There was considerable irony and some drama in President Donald Trump’s excursion to Davos on Jan. 21 as the contemptible charade of an impeachment trial began in the U.S. Senate.

Davos is the epitome of everything Trump considers suspect in the world that is yet within the West and essentially a democratic and capitalist institution. It’s an international meeting in a nondescript and inconvenient little Swiss mountain city of unusually little aesthetic merit for the Alps.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.
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