The choice is shock not just because sitting U.S. presidents rarely make appearances in the Swiss village, but because the former beauty-pageant owner spent the whole of his campaign and first year in office railing against globalism and advocating “America First” policies (Or as Joseph Stiglitz put it, calling “for American selfishness.”) Davos, Ian Bremmer, told me, is “not Trump’s constituency. Internationally, he’s very unpopular,” Bremmer added, noting that Trump, who has pulled out of the Paris climate accord and UNESCO and is reportedly mulling an imminent trade war with China, is “antithetical” to the usual Davos crowd of devoted globalists. So why is he going?
