Trump Inflicts MAGA Rant on Global Elite in Davos Video Call
The president let loose on the World Economic Forum with riffs about DEI “nonsense” and transgender “rage,” to the delight of the far-right leaders in attendance.
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President Donald Trump spun his greatest MAGA hits to world leaders and billionaires gathered in Davos on Thursday, slamming his predecessor’s DEI “nonsense” and gender-affirming care.
Trump said he “abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs throughout the federal government because, as he put it, “These are policies that were absolute nonsense.”
In his video address to the World Economic Forum, the president let his counterparts and business leaders know: The transgender “rage” ends with his new “golden era.”
With the stroke of a pen a day earlier, Trump ended all government DEI programs.
“There are only two genders: male and female,” Trump said in his Davos address, repeating a campaign mantra that struck a chord with voters. He said, “Transgender operations will occur very rarely.”
Trump’s policies have been embraced by elated far-right leaders attending the annual gathering in the Swiss Alps resort.
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“What once seemed like a global hegemony of the ‘woke’ left in politics, educational institutions, in the media, in supranational organizations or even in forums like Davos, has begun to crumble,” Argentina’s incendiary President Javier Milei told attendees Thursday.
Argentina’s Javier Milei attended Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
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Freshly inaugurated after his stunning political resurrection, Trump name-dropped a few of his favorite world leaders: Vladimir Putin of Russia; Chinese President Xi Jinping; and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who announced earlier Thursday that he plans to invest $600 billion in the U.S.
“But I’ll be asking the crown prince, who’s a fantastic guy, to round it out to around $1 trillion,” Trump said. “I think they’ll do that because we’ve been very good to them.”
Trump said he wants to meet with Putin soon “to get that war ended.” And of the Chinese leader, whom Joe Biden called a “dictator,” Trump said, “I like President Xi very much.”
“They say there’s light shining all over the world since the election,” Trump said, referring to his victory in November.
The president also boasted about getting to host a trifecta of major events to occur on U.S. soil over the next few years—the World Cup, the Olympics, and next year’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.
“And who knew that by skipping a term I would get the Olympics?” Trump said, before answering his own question. “It turned out through a stroke of luck, or whatever you might call it, that I’m going to be president during the World Cup and the Olympics and the 250th anniversary.”
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