PARIS: All eyes will be on Donald Trump next week as politicians and business leaders head to the World Economic Forum, wondering how to square the mercurial US leader with the Davos creed of open markets and multilateralism.
After a year of roiling the liberal international order since his return to office, Trump will descend on the Swiss ski resort for an address Wednesday, at a meeting whose theme is “A Spirit of Dialogue.”
“We’re pleased to welcome back President Trump,” Borge Brende, the forum’s chief executive, told an online press conference ahead of the Davos summit, six years after Trump’s previous in-person appearance during his first term.
He will bring along the largest US delegation ever, Brende added, setting the stage for private meetings on geopolitical flashpoints from Ukraine and Venezuela to Gaza, Greenland and Iran.
Trump told an event in Detroit, Michigan on Tuesday that he plans next week to “provide much more detail about our housing policies so that every American who wants to own a home will be able to afford one.”
