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Davos is an Alpine town, and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

Davos is host to the World Economic Forum (WEF), an annual meeting of global political and business elites (often referred to simply as Davos)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davos

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January 24: World Leaders Take Turns Trashing Trump Before He Lands in Davos ... Merkel, Macron, and Modi are not fans of the “America First” outlook.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/world-leaders-take-turns-trashing-trump-before-he-lands-in-davos

January 25: 'America No Longer Matters.' Davos Isn't Worried About President Trump

A year after Trump’s election raised the prospect of revolution, the elites have regained their confidence. The revolt had been put down, stock markets are up, and globalism is making a comeback.

“The phenomenon of Trump is no longer interesting to people,” said Timothy Snyder, a Yale historian whose book about tyranny Trump helped send shooting up the best-seller list. ...  “A year ago, everyone thought Trump was just fascinating,” Snyder added. “I spend a lot of my life in Europe, and what I see is that the Europeans have moved on. America no longer matters.”
http://time.com/5118030/america-no-longer-matters-davos-donald-trump/

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January 25: ‘America First’ Backfires on Trump in Davos

President Donald Trump arrived to a muted reception at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday, greeted instead by a surge of media reports citing Asian and European political leaders, economists and banking chiefs who are critical of his plan to impose steep tariffs on certain goods imported into the U.S.

He was snubbed on several fronts even before he arrived. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for example, announced on Wednesday that his country would be joining a large Pacific trade pact with 10 other nations. The U.S. was not invited into the deal.
http://observer.com/2018/01/america-first-backfires-on-trump-in-davos-at-world-economic-forum/

January 26: President Donald Trump has told global finance leaders he will always put the US first when it comes to trade, but "that does not mean America alone".

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Mr Trump's election campaign centered on America First, aiming to protect local manufacturers from foreign competition.

This policy appeared to contradict the Davos conference's goal of promoting globalisation and co-operation.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42835934

January 26: Trump, a real estate mogul and former reality TV star, had never been invited to Davos before. He basked in the praise of several executives, who applauded his tax cuts.

The first sitting U.S. president to visit the annual summit since Bill Clinton in 2000, Trump was greeted on arrival by hundreds of curious delegates who snapped pictures as he entered the congress center.

Two European executives told Reuters they were staying away from the dinner because they did not want to shake Trump’s hand. One of them consulted with his wife and children before deciding to dine elsewhere.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-trump-copy/trump-to-pitch-america-first-to-davos-elites-idUSKBN1FF0PI

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January 26:
Davos elites get a dose of the Trump First message  ... The president stuck to the script at first, then gave the crowd at the World Economic Forum a dose of the Trump show.

[The applause for Trump]  was in sharp contrast to the effusive cheers for French president Emmanuel Macron — who many believe is Europe’s new best hope for promoting the kind of closely connected, progressive-minded world that has typically been extolled at Davos ...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/26/trump-davos-speech-america-first-371243

January 26: “When people are forgotten the world becomes fractured,” President Donald Trump observed to the Davos forum in his breathlessly-awaited speech Friday. That he himself was the fracturer-in-chief must have entered the minds of more than a few in the crowded hall.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lloyd-davos-commentary/commentary-global-takeaways-from-trumps-davos-speech-idUSKBN1FF2C8

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January 26: In theory, Donald Trump’s trip to Davos should have been a disaster. After all, Trump campaigned as a populist, national-sovereignty-loving politician who was opposed to everything the globalists at Davos claim to cherish: free trade and an American-led international order. But in reality, Trump’s trip to Davos has been one of the singular triumphs of his presidency.
https://newrepublic.com/article/146797/davos-trump-became-leader-global-1-can-learn-love

January 26: “ ... many of the business and political elites remain dismissive of him, privately rolling eyes and using words like ‘madman,’ but there was excitement about economic growth, and the tax cuts and regulatory rollback he has ushered in ..." ... Davos was not enemy territory for Trump. Rather, it was Mar-a-Lago in the Swiss Alps, a place where Trump could comfortably bask in the admiration of his fellow plutocrats.
https://newrepublic.com/article/146797/davos-trump-became-leader-global-1-can-learn-love

January 26: At Davos, President Trump sold out candidate Trump ... If Steve Bannon watched the speech, he would have probably cried.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/26/16935902/trump-davos-speech-world-economic-forum

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January 26: Trump at Davos: We're your friends, not your patsies

The president stuck to his script, ticked off the accomplishments of his first year in office, offered to be a friend and trading partner to the rest of the world, but left no doubt: his job is to put America First.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/26/trump-at-davos-were-your-friends-not-your-patsies.html

January 26:
“Well of the years that I’ve been here at the economic forum, I’ve rarely heard that very civilised audience laugh at a speech and very rarely heard them boo a speech. And we heard both there. Laughter when the president said he didn’t understand why he gets so much media attention and boos when he mentioned fake news. This was Donald Trump, the diplomat, reaching out to people, sticking very closely to the prepared text that had been written well ahead of this event. The problem of course, while he says that ‘I’m looking after America and every country should look after itself’, history tells us that when countries do just look after themselves, it can end very badly for the world. Having said that, there are a lot of people in there, billionaires, big company owners, who are earning a lot of money as a result of the Donald Trump tax cuts. So there was a warm reception at least from some of the room.”
http://www.euronews.com/2018/01/26/laughed-at-and-booed-donald-trump-spoke-at-davos


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January 26: European business execs applaud Donald Trump's tax cuts at Davos

Before diving into a steak dinner at the World Economic Forum as the guests of the US president, leaders of major European corporations went around the table and praised their host's pro-business tax reform.
http://www.dw.com/en/european-business-execs-applaud-donald-trumps-tax-cuts-at-davos/a-42312622

January 27: US open to new talks on TPP, Trump says at Davos meeting
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/in-davos-trump-declares-america-is-open-for-business

January 28:
What Trump’s every-country-for-itself rhetoric gets wrong about Davos ... inside the forum, political leaders mingle with entrepreneurs, scientists and humanists. It’s a menagerie of power, money, brains and innovative thinking mainly, though not exclusively, being channeled toward social good.

So what happens when the “leader of the free world” walks into the room and promotes a form of isolationism as his recommended method for creating that shared future?
https://theconversation.com/what-trumps-every-country-for-itself-rhetoric-gets-wrong-about-davos-90792

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January 29:
On Flight to Davos, Trump Erupted Over DOJ Role in Russia Probe ...  while traveling to Davos after learning that Associate Attorney General Stephen Boyd warned that it would be “extraordinarily reckless” to release a classified memo written by House Republican staffers. The memo outlines alleged misdeeds at the FBI and Justice Department related to the Russia investigation.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-29/on-flight-to-davos-trump-erupted-over-doj-role-in-russia-probe

February 2: I was one of only two protestors at Trump’s Davos speech. Why?

In the days leading up to Trump’s talk, there were rumors that all the African leaders would walk out together and that the Young Global Leaders would too. I asked around but no one seemed to know. Ever since I had heard that Trump was coming to Davos I had wondered what kind of protest I could do. I didn’t know what would be possible given the tight security, but finally decided to don a “not my president” t-shirt.

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I showed up early at the Congress Center and noticed floods of people leaving, including many who said they couldn’t stand to watch him.

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There were dozens of journalists and photographers waiting [outside] for the speech to end. They interviewed me, and I met another woman, Sasha Kramer, who had had a similar idea: she was wearing a white T-shirt that said “I stand with Haiti” and walked out during Trump’s speech. Despite the rumors, there had been no massive boycott or walkout. It was just the two of us.
https://qz.com/1197171/i-was-one-of-only-two-protestors-at-trumps-davos-speech-why/

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January 10: Trump cancels trip to Davos amid standoff over [government] shutdown
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/10/steven-mnuchin-still-likely-to-go-to-davos-if-government-still-shut-down.html

January 22: Inside the Strange Bubble World of Davos

Scenes from Switzerland’s annual gathering of the rich and clueless.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/22/inside-the-strange-bubble-world-of-davos/


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