Washington – US President Donald Trump will give his first major speech to global business and political leaders from afar at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.
Trump is scheduled to deliver a speech and engage in a conversation at 11 a.m. Eastern Time (1600 GMT), according to the meeting schedule. It is not clear what he will discuss.
Trump’s nationalist tendencies have been on full display since taking office on Monday.
The newly inaugurated president has moved quickly to crack down on immigration, increase domestic energy production, and threaten to impose steep tariffs on the European Union, China, Mexico and Canada.
Trump has also withdrawn the US from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement. He says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, although other countries cannot adopt the new name. He has also threatened to withdraw the Panama Canal from Panama.
He has also pardoned more than 1,500 supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a failed attempt to reverse his 2020 election defeat, angering lawmakers and police who Life was put at risk.
Trump is moving to end diversity programs within the US government and is pressuring the private sector to do the same. That has left some in Davos searching for new words to describe the workplace practices they say are essential to their businesses.
