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What Trump's every-country-for-itself rhetoric gets wrong about Davos

Trump described himself as America's 'cheerleader,' but the effect was more salesman-like

Donald Trump's speech in Davos
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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 26, 2018. (Photo: Reuters)

Stephen D Smith | The Conversation

There is a disarming and almost touchingly naive belief among the presenters and the government delegations in the cloistered mountain village of Davos that “creating a shared future in a fractured world” – the title of this year’s World Economic Forum – is actually possible.

To the outside world, the panels and speeches fleetingly catch the news cycle, doing little to alter the perception that it’s just a gathering of elites and billionaires. But inside the forum, political leaders mingle with entrepreneurs, scientists and humanists. It’s a menagerie of power, money, brains and innovative thinking