Serial bankrupt and reality-TV star Donald Trump will meet some real billionaires when he joins the global titans of business, finance, and economic policy in two weeks at the 48th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Mr. Trump, an ethnocentric isolationist who publishes his economic policy on baseball hats, will converse with Nobel laureate economists, world leaders, and international financiers on the theme “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World,” which “will make a case for renewed commitment to international collaboration as a way of solving critical global challenges.” Since this is the kind of elite crowd and Globalist agenda Mr. Trump campaigned against, his presence at the Forum is baffling, especially since the Davos golf season ended in October.
The 2018 Forum is co-chaired by 7 powerful women: Sharan Burrow (General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation), Fabiola Gianotti (Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN), Isabelle Kocher (CEO of French multinational electric utility company ENGIE), Christine Lagarde (Managing Director, International Monetary Fund — IMF), Ginni Rometty (Chairman, President and CEO, IBM Corporation), Chetna Sinha (Founder and President, Mann Deshi Mahila Bank and Mann Deshi Foundation), and Erna Solberg (Prime Minister of Norway). Mr. Trump’s last meeting with women of so many nations involved a swimsuit competition, and didn’t have a code of conduct.
This year’s WEF “System Initiatives” include:
– Supporting efforts to improve global governance mechanisms and advance major multilateral processes; for example, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
– Supporting multistakeholder efforts to deliver sustainable and inclusive economic development in the face of lower growth rates, declining productivity and skills gaps
– Contributing to the shaping of new industry ecosystems and helping industry and government leaders prepare for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
– Sharing the ideas, innovations and discoveries that will have the greatest impact in reshaping global systems
Yep, sounds just like Donald.
More:
“Trump to attend World Economic Forum in Switzerland, a gathering synonymous with wealth and power,” Anne Gearan and Damian Paletta, Washington Post
“Trump, the anti-globalist, will attend the world’s most globalist conference,” Zack Beauchamp, Vox
“Coming soon to Davos: A Trump stink bomb,” John F. Harris and Ben White, Politico
“Davos is finally getting what it deserves—Donald Trump,” Heather Timmons and Jenny Anderson, Quartz
“Mnuchin defends Davos trip: not a ‘hangout for globalists,'” Alayna Treene, Axios
“Ahead of Davos, even the 1 percent worry about inequality,” Heather Long, Washington Post
“Trump has completely ruptured the Davos ideal of what global leadership means,” Heather Timmons and Eshe Nelson, Quartz
“Trump in the World That He Insults,” Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker
Updates:
“The Trump administration is sending a lot of people to Davos,” Tory Newmyer, Washington Post
“Melania Trump pulls out of attending Davos with Donald on their wedding anniversary,” Maya Oppenheim, The Independent
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