“We are lifting self-imposed restrictions on energy production to provide affordable power to our citizens and businesses and to promote energy security for our friends all around the world”, the president said.
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“Many of us will be boycotting your address to delegates at Davos in protest against your divisive comments and continued failure to unequivocally apologize”, Mohale wrote.
The US President said his trip to WEF had been “exciting” and that he was bringing “good will” back to the United States.
When asked about the report in Davos, Trump replied, “Fake news, folks, fake news. Many of us are clear-eyed about our difficulties and how to tackle them, and are doing just that”, said the South African. Speaking in Davos at the WEF, he said Israel will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and maintained that the USA deciding against continuing Iranian sanctions was not a negative development as it was a bad deal in the first place.
“We are committed to ensuring that Afghanistan never again becomes a safe haven for terrorists”, Trump said, also thanking other nations that have helped in the fight against ISIS.
“The speech had a very strong domestic focus”, he added.
On Thursday, Trump said he ultimately wanted the dollar to be strong.
Contrary to those predictions, President Trump had a full audience and received enthusiastic applause for his speech.
Trump’s speech and later interaction with WEF head Klaus Schwab indicate clearly that his anti-immigration policies will continue unabated, making it increasingly hard for foreign policy experts in India to negotiate a better deal for the expats and NRIs, increasingly courted back home by all political parties.
Instead they got a fizzle.
It was an encounter that once would have been considered unlikely: a president who ran on a nationalist platform and has sought to raise barriers since taking office, addressing an exclusive gathering of billionaire investors, corporate executives and heads of state who have spent decades building the global economic system that he has taken steps to dismantle.
Trump described having “tremendous discussions” with Kagame, who is beginning a one-year term as head of the African Union, a 55-member continental body that criticized the US president’s remarks.
Taking credit for the strong economy in the United States, he urged foreign investors to “bring your money, your jobs, your businesses to America”.
As Trump showcased his economic agenda, the audience kept quiet, with no pockets of clapping that other leaders might receive. Throughout the week, European leaders spoke with worry about the rise of populism.
“I will always put America first”.
“Alongside that working for a good trade relationship for the future which will be for both our benefits, so the United Kingdom and the U.S. both do well out of this – and it’s been great to see you today”.
Trump replied: “Fake news, folks”.
The message more or less fit the general tone of the forum, which has traditionally hosted speakers who promote globalization, praise diversity, and decry climate change – issues with which Trump has sometimes been at odds, as the New York Times notes.
Not to mention the bad press that Trump is still getting nationally, with some seriously considering if he can be impeached.
Trump said he had had “tremendous discussions” with President Kagame in a sit-down during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Staunch Trump critics were not swayed. “He talked about trade, free trade but fair trade, doesn’t want to see America exploited”.
On foreign policy, the ex-property tycoon stuck to hard-line messages on North Korea, Iran and Islamic State.
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“It was a speech about what he has done”, he said.
