On 23 January 2025, three days after his Inauguration, Donald Trump considered it important to hold a speech at the Davos Forum 2025, via an online link.
It is amazing to follow President Trump’s speech, concise and fresh, stark and eloquent and to the point. It makes look the other WEF’s participants’ speeches as from a retired old men’s coffee circle.
President Trump’s initial remarks were about his large majority in winning the election, to explain that he has a sound approval by a large majority of the US voters.
Donald Trump qualifies his efforts as President as a revolution. He may be right considering what follows hereunder.
President Trump calls the preceding Biden administration a disaster inept to solve a single crisis.
Trump accuses Biden’s policies to be responsible for an economic crisis: inflation, taxation, regulations …
Trump commits to fight inflation and to reverse “the radical left’s policies”.
During the first days, Trump terminated the “Green New Deal” as well as the Paris Climate Accord and the Electric Vehicle Mandate.
Trump further explains that he initiated the largest deregulation campaign and the largest tax cuts.
Trump calls for foreign investments, in particular, in the manufacturing industry, promising tax cuts and no tariffs. Otherwise, if enterprise prefer to stay abroad, he is threatening such foreign producers with taxes and tariffs.
Trump cites sources saying that business confidence has jumped since his election. He gives examples of large groups announcing to invest 500 billions and more in the US. As well, Saudi Arabia will invest above 600 billions in the US.
Trump addressed, in particular, Saudi Arabia and OPEC to lower the oil price. This would be good for the World economy, but Trump says a low oil price will end the Russian-Ukrainian war immediately.
Trump says that Saudi Arabia and OPEC by not reducing the oil price are “very responsible, actually, to a certain extent” for the war in Ukraine and the loss of millions of lives.
With an oil price reduction, Trump also demands a reduction of interest rates, worldwide.
Trump confirms that he immediately takes action to stop immigration, declaring national emergency for returning illegal immigrants with the help of the Army.
Trump declares the US to be again a free country as he stopped government censorship. The concepts misinformation and disinformation are eradicated.
Trump tells about his order to end the weaponizing of law enforcement against, in particular, opposition politicians – a hint on what he endured for many years.
Trump explains in stark words having abolished “all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense”. The US will become a merit-based country without giving advantages to any particular group of people.
In a special message, Trump says that the US has only two genders and there shall be no men participating in women`s sports, and the “rage” of transgender operations will occur very rarely.
Trump wants NATO members to increase their spending as it was unfair that the US has paid the others’ share. He demands a 5% of GDP for military expenses for every NATO member.
Trump confirms that it was his efforts to be successful for a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians. The Deal was his making. Even before Inauguration.
With strong words, Trump speaks about the peace in Ukraine: somehow he has the information that millions have been killed. Nothing like this since WWII. Laying dead all over the fields. He says “it’s time to end it”.
Finally, with pride, Trump says that he will preside over the 250th US founding anniversary, the Football World Cup and the Olympics.
In the following questions session, Trump, in particular, criticizes the EU, regarding unfair trade terms. Further, he points to the fact that EU courts have condemned American companies to billions of fines – for which Trump says the EU should not do this.
The same for US LNG to Europe which Trump will push through.
Trump wants to build up AI “as big as we want to have it”. He refers to the Chinese competition.
In a following discussion, Trump repeats that he “really would like to meet President Putin soon and get that war ended.” Trump again describes the horror of war and the deaths. It seems a very important matter to Trump to end the killing. If he was president, the war would never have started. With reference to Biden and other leaders, he blames them for the war, the killings and the destruction. Trump ends his discussion with a long speech about the horrors of war for which the failing predecessor and his partners were responsible.
