In a highly anticipated address to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, US President Donald Trump has taken aim at 'perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse' | BevanShields
Trump's speech at the Swiss ski resort of Davos contained little of the criticism he levelled at China and other countries during his last address in 2018. Some European leaders had been bracing for the President to turn his sights on the continent following skirmishes over French plans to impose a tax on American digital giants and punitive US tariffs on EU exports.
"Only when governments put their own citizens first will people be fully invested in their national futures." The President, who will use the strong American economy as a platform for seeking a second term at presidential elections in November, claimed his country was "in an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen before".
Trump's criticism of "predictions of the apocalypse" appeared to be a swipe at Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist who headlined a section of the summit titled, 'Averting a climate apocalypse'.
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