David Graham reported for The Atlantic from Davos about Trump’s big speech to foreign heads of state and leaders of business and culture.
It was, writes Graham, filled with the trademarks of Trump speeches: lies, incoherence and confusion. It was the kind of speech that Trump has delivered to adoring audiences while campaigning. Filled with boasts, grievances, and exaggeration.
“Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German,” Donald Trump scolded European leaders at the World Economic Forum this morning. Perhaps the Germans have a word for the experience of watching your country’s leader embarrass himself and the country on the global stage.
Where does one start in summarizing such a speech? The straightforward racism? The economic illiteracy? The determination to alienate allies? The many moments where the president said things that were blatantly, provably false? And because he rambled through more than an hour, he covered a lot of ground.
The most anticipated section was about Trump’s ongoing effort to acquire Greenland. Trump argued that only the United States could defend the island, which he perplexingly also dismissed as “a giant piece of ice” and accidentally called “Iceland” on a few occasions. He also said Greenland was essential for the “golden dome” missile-defense system he claims he will build. (He denied that the U.S. is after rare-earth minerals in Greenland.)
Although Trump insisted that he has the utmost respect for both Danes and Greenlanders, nothing else he said evinced any. He accused them of being ungrateful for the U.S. defense of Greenland during World War II and argued that the American government erred when it “gave it back” after the war. Trump delivered a classic mafioso threat to take Greenland by force, saying that U.S. military might was irresistible, before adding nonchalantly that he would not do such a thing. This was not as reassuring as some headlines might lead readers to believe. And he said that if European leaders didn’t acquiesce, “we will remember….”

Love your commentary on this one. Not sure how you keep up on it all and still do all that you do. What can I possibly say after that display of lies, bravado and ignorance… an utter embarassment to the entire world!
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Trump is a national embarrassment.
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Also an international embarrassment. Gotta give him credit for being THE #1 international idiot!
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I will never for the life of me understand how a candidate who said Haitians are eating cats and dogs got elected.
Trump said today that China makes almost all the world’s wind turbines but “has very few wind farms” in China, and that they mainly sell them to other countries.
China is the world’s largest user of wind energy, with far more installed wind capacity than any other country.-wikipedia
Welcome to Idiocracy. Crops growing on sports drink can’t be far behind.
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Idiocracy? I believe kakistocracy is the word: From Wiki: “Kakistocracy (/ˌkækɪˈstɒkrəsi/ KAK-ist-OK-rə-see) is government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.”
Pretty much covers the OFCFPP Regime, eh!
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He is a salesman who could sell ice to Eskimos and go broke doing it.
After multiple bankruptcies, Trump finally figured out how to get rich.
Run for President on a platform of anger, grievance, hatred, divisiveness, lying, promising–bully anyone who puts up a fight. Then grift your way to billions.
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“I will never for the life of me understand how a candidate who said Haitians are eating cats and dogs got elected.”
I’ve been trying to figure that out since 2016 when he insulted every American shot down over Vietnam with his cheap jibe at McCain- in early times that remark alone should have wrecked a campaign and sunk the candidate for good…..and yet.
Somewhere, somewhen, something very unhealthy with the USA, ever a nasty prevalence started to grow more and more; it found Trump and joyously threw him to the fore. Now it has its wish fulfilled and the nation suffers.
Most nations go through this at some stage…your turn guys
Roger (UK)
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Things have changed at Davos, from the CBC:
In a whiplash-inducing U-turn, U.S. President Donald Trump suddenly dropped his insistence on taking control of Greenland, mere hours after laying out at great length his rationale for ownership of the Arctic island. {skip} While few specifics have emerged about the “framework,” it’s clear it does not include Denmark handing Greenland over to the U.S. end quote
Who knows if Trump will go along with the new plan developed at Davos but he also said he will not impose the tariffs that he had threatened. This is life with the moron-in-chief in our moronocracy, stupidity on steroids on a daily basis. Putin and Xi Jinping must be laughing their heads off at the clown show in the USA.
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Anyone with a functioning brain should know better than to believe that good could possibly come to us or the rest of the world under the leadership of the Malignant Narcissist. See this: “Trump shocks with proposal to make himself ‘king of the world’“
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-king-of-the-world/
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Here is the source of the above info: Jacob T. Levy, Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
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Great picture of Davos, Switzerland *https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/bafkreidb5tnun7gdgqqpzs652xrw5wczlu3vwiikgeu7uwg4pv5ygbgbgm@jpeg
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