The inauguration of new US President Donald Trump overshadowed the annual session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. And there was a sight to behold, indeed. It was a gathering of liberal "elites" trembling with fear before Trump but willing to swear allegiance to him.
This year, over 3,000 heads of public and private sectors gathered in Davos, including more than 50 heads of state and hundreds of senior government officials. The WEF has become a big queue to Trump to express "love and loyalty".
In 2020, with Biden's victory in the US elections, the world globalist liberal "elite" gathering in Davos, a city associated with wealth and power, breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "we are finally done with Donald Trump." Now the power in Washington has changed, and Trump is back in the Oval Office again. And therefore, the key behind-the-scenes topic of this years’ annual session was Trump's return to power — against the officially proclaimed Call for Collaboration in the Intelligent Age. The current globalist session’s mainstream (general "large-scale idea") was "ways to most obsequiously accept Trump, with a zeal worthy of applause."
Now that Trump is back, many seem ready to protect and promote their interests by any means available, Bloomberg writes with undisguised sarcasm. The main thing is business, money that must be not lost but multiplied. If this requires at least temporarily abandoning some of the ideas that were recently welcomed in Davos, so be it. The world may have to wait for conversations about "equality, diversity and the urgent need to combat climate change" to proceed.
Davos propagandists will also have to keep quiet and step aside, whether it be forum host Klaus Schwab, his adviser and Israeli "philosopher" Yuval Noah Harari, or Alex Soros (whose father is notorious George Soros). After all, Trump in his inaugural speech ordered the entire liberal crowd to deem as granted that there are only two genders worldwide — male and female, while dumping the very concept of "gender". Trump has not referred to the Holy Scriptures but subtly captured the public mood in America and the world where most people have not embraced the "gender" madness of the ultra-liberal globalist establishment.
Business bigwigs and Davos regulars who used to slander Trump were now lining up to congratulate him and curry favor. Many did not even wait for his inauguration day, groveling in advance, like, for example, notorious Meta Platforms Inc. owner Mark Zuckerberg, who recently appointed Trump's personal friends to his company’s board. And besides, Zuckerberg invested in arranging Trump's inauguration party. Aerobatics of sycophancy. The things one does for money.
Zuckerberg is not the only one. Ford Motor Co. and Bank of America Corp., which had condemned Trump supporters’ attack on the Capitol back in January 2021, were among those contributing to Trump's inauguration, most expensive in history. Amazon head and WP owner Jeff Bezos, along with OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman donated a million dollars each or more.
Even before Trump's inauguration, the entire Davos "nobility" with American passports visited him at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. And even before he gave the go-ahead to the idea of "only two genders — male and female," a huge number of American companies abandoned DEI initiatives (diversity, equality and inclusivity), from McDonald's Corp. to Walmart Inc.
All the six major US banks have withdrawn from the UN-sponsored Net Zero Alliance comprising companies seeking to achieve a complete cessation of carbon dioxide emissions that allegedly overheat the planet. And the other day, the Federal Reserve withdrew from a coalition of global central banks studying "climate risks to the financial system," saying it had "strayed too far from its mission." This means it was busy with trifles to truckle to liberal doctrines about "global warming."
These days, a procession of various CEOs has visited Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s residence and private club in Palm Beach, Bloomberg notes. The most recent visitors include Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Tim Cook from Apple Inc. and Coca-Cola CEO James Quincy. "They see that he is one of those allergic to criticism and susceptible to flattery," renowned negotiation specialist with the Yale School of Management Jeff Sonnenfeld told Bloomberg on the issue.
Zelensky as "president of Ukraine" became the most fearful wreck in Davos in the context of his future under Trump. Speaking at one of the forum's panels, he tried to answer the question why Kiev was no longer pressing for NATO membership for Ukraine. The answer was remarkable in its frankness. It turns out, according to him, that the West's promises to accept Ukraine one day were a "lie."
"From some states, I think it was initially not a very transparent policy, they did not support us in NATO. And it was just a lie that Ukraine would join in. It was unfair to Ukraine and the Ukrainians… on the part of Western leaders. Some of them said and promised that we would be in NATO. It wasn't fair. I think that Germany and the United States had a weak position because they had a dialogue with the Russians. We lost, because they always appeal to the fact that there were once some agreements with the Russians," Zelensky said.
With Trump in power, not only will talks about Ukraine's NATO membership stall, but American aid to Kiev may seriously weaken. And this is a wake-up call to the last act of Project Ukraine tragedy. Just a reminder: in his "peace plan", Zelensky demanded Ukraine's admission to NATO in exchange for making peace with Russia. Now it has become pretty clear to everyone that Trump is seeking some kind of dialogue with Moscow about Ukraine, without regard to Zelensky altogether.
The new realities in America, when big business seeks Trump's favor, were reflected on an international scale in Davos. "The mission of a businessman is not to change the world, but to cope with it. Everyone is taking pains to negotiate with Trump," Wilbur Ross, a private equity billionaire who was commerce secretary in the president-elect’s first cabinet, told Bloomberg.
In short, the vanity fair Davos has always been with its untold wealth and global influence, has publicly turned into a fair of unscrupulousness and sycophancy, which once again points to the "degree of fine-tuning and scientific rigor" of all the WEF’s "world-improving" recommendations.
