Davos Elite Nod Trump Delivers Ultimatum

World leaders, bosses of the world’s largest companies and celebrities pour into the small mountain of Davos in Switzerland.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the political end of the new US President Donald Trump began.

“Nothing will stand in our way,” he declared, as he pledged to end America’s “decline.”

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While he charmed, the audience was fascinated by the incredible image, he was able to scale new technological heights. He scaled new technological heights.

Trillions in tariffs to the US Treasury for businesses marketed from overseas factories.

“Your prerogative,” he said, with a smile that wasn’t out of place. And then for Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan, the notable public darling accused many conservatives of his “prohibition” lending giant.

He laughed about sponsoring the World Cup.

In this first week of his second term, most people in Davos were nodding, because they can’t think of anything else to do, just yet.

Two worlds clash, the ‘America first’ president was treated as a 30-meter interplanetary emperor, he beat the rules-based international economic order.

It’s one thing to suggest that trade deficits have a problem with your domestic election. MeTk is another G7 ally, to suggest that Canada is in an international forumbecome the state of your nation by creating gassons from the audience, and not from the Canadians.

The address was designed, charming and offensive. There was a carrot and a stick for the rest of the world.

There was a mix of threats, invitations and, occasionally, praise from the delegates, many of whom seemed to be trying to decide how many trumps Trump could influence, knowing what his America is like in this AI tech boom.

For this first week, Davos has been the alternative pole for Trump’s second term.

There was a consistency to his agenda to use all means drive energy prices by pressuring the Saudis on oil.

He said that would not help lower inflation, but Russian war oil dollar coffees also escape to help end the war in Ukraine, according to financial resources. The Middle East ceasefire has already bought some geopolitical credibility in these circles.

Christine Lagarde, David Miliband and John Kerry entered the room. Several bank leaders mounted the stage to praise and then question the president.

The bottom line was this: Is President Trump as serious to the world economic system as his campaign trail threats seem? The answer will be the benchmark for the next four years and beyond.

The answer is definitely, definitely, yes. However, that doesn’t mean it will work.

Some US CEOs told me they were preparing tit-for-tat tariffs to apply to exports. Their assumption is that the president’s love of the stock market would limit the spread of tariffs.

But no one knows. In any case, there are many bears. It has already been withdrawn from the World Health Organization.

In the whispers of promises, he suggested that we remove the 2025 project from the IMF and the World Bank as well.

The rest of the world has some leverage, once Trump decides to back up after the whirlwind.

Canadians are reporting their retaliatory tariffs. Jonathan Reynolds in talks with the British Business Secretary and the EU Trade Minister and European Union Chief Trade Officer, Maros SefcovicI sensed the desire for a relaxed conversation.

Both make similar arguments for trying to untangle horns from broader fares.

Mr. Reynolds told me that the US has no goods sales deficit with the UK, so there is no need for tariffs.

Mr. Sefcovic said the U.S. should really think about its utility surpluses, too.

But aren’t the G7 and NATO Allies Canada’s Threats and Denmark’s (more than Greenland) unacceptable and as absurd as France’s claim to Louisiana? Sefcovic didn’t want to whitewash anything.

Diplomats are drawing up lists of US assets to show Europe’s “win” for President Trump.

The rest of the G7 might make sense to work on retaliating against the tariffs, concentrating the minds of Congress and competing factions within the Trump court.

This sign is not happening.

The story of US technology epitomized by broligarchy – iNinging Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta Boss Mark Zuckerberg, Apple Leader Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichar – They had the upper seats at the opening this week.

While the US is streets ahead of Europe, standing against China is far from certain.

One of the keynotes at Davos featured a big performance by Deepsees, a much cheaper AI model made in China. The announcement that the tech bros would drop the streak from each other on the Trump court began to arrive hours, rather than months.

While, for the most part, Davos appeared enthralled by Trump’s tech optimism, some in Europe will also see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to woo top researchers who may be less than forthcoming with direction on US policy. It was suggested by the Chief European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde.

Others, on the other hand, may have to deal with Biden’s massive green subsidies, creating more of a playing field for Europe again.

President Trump is changing the terms of world trade. The response of the rest of the world is as important as what the Trump Administration decides to do.

January 24: The title of this story has been updated to better reflect its content.