Donald Trump in Davos

Trump's speech is much longer than Carney's. He mentions his "enemies", does a lot of bragging about the US economy, tells some lies about green energy (and does some literal tilting at windmills, hilariously), says the usual BS about how the US "gave Greenland back" and now Denmark is soooo ungrateful, and some other oddities. But here's my favourite excerpt. Remember... he is in Davos. Which is in Switzerland. And Switzerland's president, by the way, is Guy Bernard Parmelin.

Here we go... Brace yourself.

Trump: "we put a 30 per cent tariff on Switzerland and all hell broke loose. They were calling, I mean like you wouldn’t believe. And I know so many people from Switzerland. Incredible place, incredible brilliant place. But I then realized that they’re only good because of us.

... And the I guess prime minister — I don’t think president — I think prime minister called. A woman. And she was very repetitive.

She said, ‘no, no, no, you cannot do that, 30 per cent. You cannot do that. We are a small, small country.’ I said, ‘yeah, but you have a big, big deficit. You may be small, but you have a big deficit than big countries.’

She said, ‘no, no, no, please, you cannot do it.’ Kept saying the same thing over and over. ‘We are a small country,’ she said, but you’re a big country in terms of… and she just rubbed me the wrong way, I’ll be honest with you.

And I said, ‘all right, thank you, ma’am. Appreciate it.’

‘Do not do this.’

‘Thank you very much.’ And I made it 39 per cent.

And then all hell really broke out. And I was paid visits by everybody. Rolex came to see me.  They all came to see me. But I realized and I reduced it because I don’t want to hurt people, I don’t want to hurt them.

... And as she said, "it’s a small place" and I realized with that, I don’t know, I was so, because she was so aggressive. And I realized in that conversation that the United States is keeping the whole world afloat."

 

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