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Donald Trump at the WEF Davos 2026
He took a lot of time for his somewhat belated appearance at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps. For a whole hour and a half, Trump was very full of himself. We have summarized his speech for you:
Donald Trump describes his appearance in Davos as a review of a successful first year after his return to office. He declared that the USA was experiencing a historic economic upturn: "Our economy is booming, growth is exploding, productivity is rising rapidly, inflation has been beaten" ("Our economy is booming, growth is exploding, productivity is surging. Inflation has been defeated.").
The United States is the economic engine of the world: "When America booms, the whole world booms" ("When America booms, the entire world booms.").
Trump contrasts this self-image with Europe as a negative example. Parts of the continent are no longer recognizable, expressly "not in a positive way" ("not in a positive way").
The reason for this are wrong political decisions: "constantly increasing government spending, uncontrolled mass immigration and endless imports" ("ever increasing government spending, unchecked mass migration and endless foreign imports"). Europe is harming itself: "They are destroying themselves" ("They're destroying themselves."). At the same time, he says: "The United States is very concerned about the people of Europe" ("The United States cares greatly about the people of Europe.").
Trump places a central focus on energy policy. He describes European climate policy as a "Green New Scam", "perhaps the biggest scam in history" ("perhaps the greatest hoax in history"). He portrays wind power as economically damaging: "Instead of building ineffective, loss-making windmills, we tear them down" ("Instead of building ineffective, money-losing windmills, we're taking them down."). He formulates a general rule: "The more windmills a country has, the more money it loses" ("The more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses.").
Trump describes China as the main beneficiary of this development. "China builds almost all the windmills" ("China makes almost all of the windmills"), but hardly uses them himself. He says he has "not been able to find any wind farms in China" ("I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China"). China produces wind turbines, "sells them for a fortune" ("They sell them for a fortune"), namely "to the stupid people who buy them" ("to the stupid people that buy them"). The systems themselves "do not rotate, they do nothing" ("They don't spin. They don't do anything."). They also "kill the birds" ("They killed the birds") and "ruin the landscape" ("they ruin your landscapes").
Trump cites Germany as an example of the consequences of previous energy policies. At the same time, he explains: "It's not the current chancellor's fault. He will do a great job" ("It's not the current chancellor's fault. He's going to do a great job.").
In terms of security policy, Trump describes the USA as Europe's main guarantor. He says: "The United States is being treated very unfairly by NATO" ("The United States is treated very unfairly by NATO."). At the same time, he expresses doubts about loyalty to the alliance in an emergency: "I'm not sure they would be there for us" ("I'm not sure that they'd be there for us.").
Trump classifies Greenland as a key strategic area. Looking back, he says: "We should have kept it after the Second World War" ("We should have kept it after World War II."). He comments on the return: "How stupid were we to do that?" ("How stupid were we to do that?"). It is not about raw materials, but about security: "We need it for reasons of strategic national security" ("We need it for strategic national security."). He therefore announces: "I am seeking immediate negotiations to discuss the acquisition of Greenland" ("I'm seeking immediate negotiations... to discuss the acquisition of Greenland.").
On the role of the media, Trump explains: "The media is very biased" ("The media is very biased.") and have lost their credibility. They could only regain this if they reported fairly: "If they want credibility, they have to be fair" ("If they're going to get credibility, they're going to have to be fair.").
As a future security policy project, Trump announces the construction of a missile defense system: "We will build the biggest Golden Dome ever built" ("We're going to build the greatest golden dome ever built."). This will also protect allies: "By its very nature, it will co-defend Canada" ("Just by its nature, it's going to be defending Canada.").
Finally, Trump personalizes his role within the Western alliance. He reports that representatives from the NATO environment referred to him as follows: "They called me Daddy" ("They called me daddy.").
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Years ago, Putin was asked by a German journalist whether he was a friend of Germany. He replied in the negative, saying he was President of the Russian Federation. Nobody will ask Trump such a question. He has clearly positioned himself. Anyone hoping that Trump will save Europe has forgotten that geopolitically it is always about interests and only very rarely about sympathies. Nevertheless, it is worth listening carefully to Trump - and Putin. They represent the two superpowers in our immediate neighborhood. Both want Europe to work to their advantage. Helmut Schmidt would have known this and acted accordingly. My expectations of the politicians currently setting the tone are far removed from the fact that they could or wanted to do the same as the former chancellor. This realization does not necessarily lead to resignation. For my part, I no longer take politics so seriously, nor do I see any threat of war emanating from Western countries in continental Europe. During my active service as a conscript officer in 1988, it was already quite clear that the Bundeswehr would not have been able to defend Germany with conventional weapons; a nuclear escalation would have wiped out Poland and Germany. In the meantime, the Bundeswehr is a toothless tiger and all the propaganda and all the money will not change that. The nice thing about the work-life balance of Generation Z is its peacefulness. The troops would go home after 35 hours at the latest, by which time they would probably have run out of ammunition. We Germans are no longer a nation of warriors and we won't be again. That's a good thing! We have imperceptibly moved closer and closer to the European average and that is certainly not a disadvantage in the long term. Social developments are thwarting all fantasies of omnipotence and the political caste is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Consumption is becoming less important and large sections of the population see politics and bureaucracy as natural phenomena, nothing worth getting worked up about. After very tight comes very loose (old mechanic's wisdom). We should focus more on each other than on the madness that surrounds us. Those who prioritize cultural development over material development are certainly doing little wrong.
There are some who see Trump as a megalomaniac, but compared to people, especially in Germany, who want to eliminate the misery of the world through maximum immigration, who want to protect the earth's climate from useful warming through maximum avoidance of the life gas CO2 and people from infections through injections with auto-aggressive genetic toxins and who perceive a gender in sexual development disorders, he is a miserable beginner and amateur. He should get some training in megalomania from black-red-green.
Divide and rule! That is the policy - including that of the USA. Europe, including the EU, is divided and dominated. By the USA and by Russia. As long as we can afford an incompetent, corrupt OMA in Brussels, we will remain divided and dominated. This also applies to the leadership of the EU central bank.
Trump knows this and uses it together with his military power. As the saying goes: 480 million Europeans are being protected from 180 million Russians by around 280 million Americans. That says it all.
What Trump is saying in Davos can be summed up in one sentence:
Shut up and do what I want.
It would be easy to reduce Trump. His favorite weapon at the moment is customs. It should be easy, together with the EU, to motivate India, China, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico and parts of South America, including half of all Arab, Muslim and African countries, to impose an additional 200% tariff on all US imports. That would be the end of the American dream. This is just one measure of many possibilities.
What do you do with a US president who says a lot of stupid things? If the summary is correct, which I assume it is, his comments on wind power in general and wind power in China in particular, for example, are completely out of thin air. According to Wikipedia, China produced the most electricity with wind turbines in the world in 2023 with 885.6 terawatt hours. Ahead of the USA with just under half, namely 425.2 terawatt hours. I wonder what the owners of the turbines in the USA will say when "he's taking them down".
This man is unusually stupid. Or mentally ill. Or both. Not everything was better in the past. But many things were good. And in the past, this man would have been visited by people with jackets strapped to their backs. And today this man is President of the USA with access to the codes of nuclear weapons. Unbelievable. And yet reality.
You are probably also a member of the "The wind always blows somewhere - and if it doesn't, the sun will shine next" faction, which wants to cover the base load of an entire energy-hungry industrial (!) nation. Weave baskets and collect cow dung for heating. And be happy with it.
Anyone who uses Wikipedia as a source has outed themselves as stupid. Trump certainly has other sources here. You are making the same mistake as the EU. Namely to consistently underestimate Trump. Whereby Trump's success proves the opposite.
It's never that easy to categorize people. His actions may be hectic and hardly predictable, but they are focused on HIS GOALS.
He has clearly recognized that Ukraine is a dead horse and one should not want to ride a dead horse.
He has also clearly recognized that the PRC will be clearly ahead of the USA in a few years, and can ultimately set the guidelines for them, and no imperialist, no one who wants to lead an empire, who claims to be the leader of the world, can leave it at that. To this end, he has examined the PRC's weak points - and these lie in its hunger for oil - and has first brought Venezuela into line and is making the same attempt with IRAN. If this succeeds, the Chinese will have a big problem.
The WEF has become a wonderful showdown between the globalists around Larry Fink and Klaus Schwab and their supporters on the one hand and the anti-globalists - let's call them nationalists (keyword MAGA) - around Donald Trump on the other. Yesterday, Donald Trump clearly renounced his allegiance to the former and pulled the plug. No more "you won't own anything, but you'll be happy", quite the opposite. He wants every American factory worker to be able to afford home ownership again and not have to rent because some real estate sharks and/or credit institutions have taken their property away from them.
Larry Fink has long recognized this - including in the context of the failure of the green energy policy, which he has admitted - that the globalists are losing their base and is now in the process of initiating a discussion to move the annual meeting of the WEF away from Davos to several other locations in Asia, Africa and America in order to court new followers there. We are living in very exciting times and now it is important that strong resistance against the current disastrous policy, as criticized by Trump in an extremely clear form, is finally forming in Germany too. German entrepreneurs have already called for a frontal attack on the government today. That gives us hope!
That may not be too popular in our country: I actually like Trump a lot, because he is not the classic type of sleazy, devious, insidious politician and never will be. And above all, he has the courage to hurl at people who consider themselves extremely important exactly what they don't want to hear. And lo and behold, those busybodies then quickly reveal their limited character. Those who step downwards and constantly bombard us with new idiotic regulations hunch upwards and grovel before Trump because they almost wet themselves with fear when they meet him. After all, they can only do "up", but as soon as they can't calculate or buy someone, they react anxiously, fearfully and vulnerably. I like that, a lot. Trump is unmasking the entire paucity of the European political "elite". But when he praises Merz, the prototype of a political loser, a man without substance, who can't do anything except make big statements, whose promises have a half-life of a few hours and who simply continues the red-green party under the CDU label, which has long since become completely worthless, he loses his standing with me. Even if it was poisoned praise, which you never really know with Trump. Even under Merz, the wind turbine madness will continue mercilessly, our country will continue to be polluted, even in even higher doses, for incalculable fidget spinners and the profits of a disgusting clique of businessmen with a woke face - and the evil game works because of the typical German obsession that nuclear power comes straight from hell. Merz continues the bullshit unabated - firstly, the foreign chancellor doesn't give a damn about our country and secondly, he is far too cowardly to shake green dogmas. No, dear "Orange Man", please no more praise for Fritze Merz, otherwise you won't be able to remain my "best friend" in the long term, which will probably shake you to the core! 🙂
There is so much vehement and synchronized ranting against Trump - clear common sense must inevitably suspect something rotten - the opposite of Obama, who came across with charm, but at the latest with the "Nobel Prize" for "Future Good Deeds" (was it just me who was stumped by the media lockstep?) something was obviously rotten!
Everyone rants about Na..I and rääächts, but nobody writes or shouts about fasciae and their progressive bundling.... Probably because it doesn't fit in with the familiar left-right schemas .... Never again has been going on since 2020, but after 80 years of brainwashing, the gossip bunnies are not so logical!
Why should Trump act any differently than all the presidents before him who, under the pretext of helping other countries, on the contrary only subjugated, plundered and caused unspeakable suffering?
have brought upon the nations.
I recommend the book by David Gray Griffin " the dark side of the American empire "
What is astonishing is that Trump is now praising Merz for the third time. "He will do a great job!" And now comes Merz's speech to East German entrepreneurs the day before yesterday, in which he described Russia as a "European state". And a few days ago he said that opening the border was a serious mistake. Is this a change of tack? Because Merz realizes that he can't get anywhere like this?
I think the Europeans are looking for a way out of the Ukraine war without losing face. Germany must decide whether to take the lead of the dove faction (Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, Slovakia, etc.) or follow the hawks (Great Britain, Poland, the Baltic states). Let's leave the EU out of the equation; it will then join in because it is not an independent center of power in terms of foreign policy. If Merz had understood this, and possibly even discussed it with Trump, the end of the Ukraine war would be near. The realization would then only have to be translated into political and media action. And a narrative would have to be found so that everyone could save face. NB: The rumors that Putin sees an opportunity to use some of the confiscated Russian money to rebuild Ukraine also fit into this narrative.
Trump is not a politician. That is perhaps his greatest asset! He talks plainly to everyone and is a savvy poker player. In the big political line, he follows what constitutes America's identity as a western empire anyway. However, he buries some errors (of the Dems). Examples: 1. the Ukraine war was a mistake. Have been saying the Reps all along (not the Rinos). Let's end it. China is the Challange and the war has brought China and Russia closer. What a mistake. 2. migration must be stopped and in parts reversed. Because otherwise the white majority in the USA will no longer exist from 2045. 3. the USA is in debt up to its neck. Also because they have borne most of the costs of the West's imperial position. No more, the Europeans must pay for their security. Tariffs are the leverage. 4. climate catastrophe is a business model that mainly benefits the Chinese and the Third World. Let's stop this nonsense. 5 Europe is left, woke, in debt and without leadership. We are happy to help. But first Europe has to help itself by breaking out of the ideological cage. 6 Greenland is extremely important for the Northern Passage. Whoever controls it controls the Antarctic region. Should Denmark do that? 7. the media must report fairly and not be ideological themselves. Those are his points. And he's right on all of them. Only the Europeans don't realize that. Because their politicians are weak, because the EU is neither a federal state nor a confederation of states, but just a huge bureaucracy.
Did he actually give his speech FREELY? Or was there a TP somewhere? In any case, I always saw him looking into the auditorium. In view of the harsh condemnation of Germany's energy/wind turbine policy in particular, you will probably read in the media what could have been taken from Andersen's fairy tale: "And so the (naked) emperor only threw himself even more proudly into the chest." It will be difficult or even impossible for our political leadership to start or even maintain a really serious exchange with the USA. After all, who wants to spend more time than absolutely necessary with idiots when there are important things to do?
A look at the history of America's origins clearly shows how "the American" thinks. The expansion of the national territory took place through extermination (genocide), land purchase (Louisiana Purchase/Alaska), annexation, war. No matter whether Democrat or Republican. The "Manifest Destiny" lives on.
The times are completely crazy and can no longer be measured by normal standards. It will take an eccentric figure to break up these structures, this feltocracy, that have been formed over years and decades. The existing means and methods of the rule of law and the European Enlightenment are obviously not enough.
Absolute agreement. We need precisely this eccentric Trump, a man with the self-confidence of a herd of bulls. With his unrivaled chutzpah - meant in a positive sense - Trump achieves a great deal, also in our sense: whether he intends it or not, he breaks up ailing, rotten structures everywhere and exposes their profiteers. I like to say that you can dislike Trump and find him highly unappealing, but if he didn't exist, he would have to be "invented" today.
It is impressive how little the EU is learning from Trump and the Americans. Too far to the left, too dictatorial, too little national interest. If the Europeans don't react, exactly what Trump says will happen. It's already five past 12. On Greenland, let them vote.
In the past, the division LEFT and RIGHT was used according to the seats in parliament
On the left sat the SPD - which was still a workers' party until 1914 - and on the RIGHT sat the representatives of the bourgeoisie, i.e. the people of the capital.
What is being thrown about here and now with the left/right has neither hand nor foot and actually shows people's political ignorance.
Anyone who classifies the EU - an alliance of states in which many fascist states are bundled together and whose leading elites, at least in Germany, are in many cases the children of high-ranking fascists of the Third Reich - as LEFT-wing. It is just as idiotic to label the AfD as far-right and "NAZIS". This may be true for large sections from the old federal states, but it is by no means true for the majority of members and supporters here in the East
I am not an absolute Trump fan, but I have to say that I am 90 to 95 % in full agreement with the content of his
speech, the reverse is true for Europe's views and policies. In contrast to the moralizing Europe, Trump has a sober view of the realities. You can argue about his diplomatic approach, but then you have to ask yourself what diplomatic skills does Europe currently have to offer? The answer is nothing at all. Donald Trump is the right man in the right place for these completely messed up times, no one else in the world has the skills and means to save the Western world from the mess it has got itself into, Europe is absolutely incapable and unwilling to do so for the foreseeable future - the reasons are well known.
Thank you very much for your comment.
I can agree with that one hundred percent.