Assuming he doesn’t go off script, Agent Orange should give a relatively mundane speech repeating the latest foreign policy generalizations (see the UN speech) and seems to have brought the Mooch back into his circle (see Jarvanka).
One also expects that there will the usual buffoonery that Lord Dampnut has displayed in prior foreign trips, and the real idiocy is happening in the background, what with deliberate weakening of the US dollar and the underlying problems unattended.
It will be an opportunity to work on emoluments, made more attractive now that Trump may save himself many billions of dollars with the #GOPTaxScam.
Any speech Trump gives will be his highest-profile overseas address yet. He will also, presumably, be keeping up his own very personal Twitter coverage of all that happens, giving a level of insight into his state of mind – as well as who has really annoyed him.
According to reporting by Politico, the president will most likely use the speech to set off one what some advisors call a dramatic “stink bomb.” Expect the president to lambaste other attendees on free-trade deals that he believes have undermined the United States, express his skepticism on climate change and perhaps the activities of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Little of that will go down particularly well. Much, however, will depend on Trump’s own reaction to any criticism. Without doubt, he will lose no opportunity to remind all other attendees – including world leaders – that he is the president of the United States and they, as he once told a critical journalist from Time magazine, are not.
The U.S. president will be accompanied by the largest U.S. delegation in recent Davos history. In addition to Mnuchin, it is scheduled to include Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin. That will allow for an unusually wide collection of policymaker speeches in which the Washington can set out its positions – or add nuance and explanation to the utterances of POTUS.
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The Trump Organization’s largest lender, Deutsche Bank AG, is sending several representatives including Paul Achleitner, the long-serving chairman of the bank’s supervisory board. Also attending is Herman Gref, chief executive officer of Russia’s state-controlled Sberbank who hosted a dinner for Trump in Moscow in 2013 after sponsoring his Miss Universe pageant. And one world leader—Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri—has known the U.S. president since the 1980s, when Trump bought land in Manhattan from his father.
Trump is the first U.S. president since Bill Clinton to attend Davos and he’s bringing one of the biggest delegations ever, including son-in-law and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner. A handful of bankers and investors who have financed the Kushner family’s real estate projects will attend, including Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone LP. Schwarzman is the former head of Trump’s business council.
“He wants to shatter the myth that he is only an ‘America First’ president,” said Anthony Scaramucci, the financier who was briefly Trump’s communications director and still informally advises the president. “That’s not the case. He is a globalist. He has a duality to his personality. He’s here to disrupt things, which he does a reasonably good to great job of.”
In his speech on Friday, Trump is expected to focus on national security, calling on world leaders to unite against North Korea, Islamic State and Iran -- a familiar refrain from many of Trump’s speeches to international audiences, said a person familiar with the text.