"#Putin really liked the idea of cutting way back on nuclear." [sure he did]

"Hopefully #China can help us stop the war with, in particular #Russia, #Ukraine. They have a great deal of power over that situation. And, we'll work w/them. And I mentioned that…during our phone conversation w/ #Xi."

#Trump said Ukraine was ready to make a deal, & that the war would never have happened if he was in office.

"We want to see if we can denuclearize, & I think that is possible."

#Trump on #Russia & #China at #WEF:

"I would like to be able to meet with President #Putin soon to get that war ended."

“He called me,” Trump said of the phone call with #Xi.

"I think that we're going to have a very good relationship." [meaning with China]

"All we want is fairness. We just want a level playing field." [cuz rich white American men & corporations have had it so hard ]

"Right now it is not a fair relationship, the deficit is massive."

#GlobalEconomy #geopolitics
#USpol

#Trump also mentioned #Mexico, saying; "We are dealing with Mexico I think very well."
[He is just loving exercising his white supremacist tendencies via #immigration #ExecutiveOrders]

More grievances:

"We just want to be treated fairly with other nations."

"We have debt ... we want to just have the debt obliterated."
[who doesn’t want their debt to “just” disappear?]

#WEF #economy #GlobalEconomy #geopolitics
#plutocracy #USpol

Ana Botín, #BancoSantander, asked about #deregulation & how fast it’s going to happen.

"We are going to move very quickly. It is going to have a huge impact on the economy, a huge positive impact."

#Trump said the US did not need Canadian #oil, #gas, #autos or #lumber & again suggested #Canada become the 51st US state.
"We're going to be demanding respect from other nations. Canada, we have a tremendous deficit w/Canada. We're not going to have that any more.”

#ClimateCrisis
#WEF #geopolitics

#Trump said he would bring #corporate #tax down to 15% if companies make their product in the US.

Trump then attacked #BofA,
"I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank, & that included a place called Bank of America. ... what you're doing is wrong,"

#Trump said much more in #Davos at #WEF, a lot of lies, a lot of other stupid things, the coal thing was just so remarkably idiotic that it deserved highlighting.

Brian Moynihan, Chair & CEO, #BankOfAmerica asked about the impact of all Trump’s #ExecutiveOrders on growth & bringing down #inflation.

"I think it's going to actually bring down inflation. It's going to bring up jobs. We're going to have a lot of jobs. We're gonna have a lot of companies moving in."

This bears repeating, #Trump thinks #coal cannot be destroyed by a bomb. coal. COAL!

In his first speech before world leaders, at the #WorldEconomicForum, the President of the United States went on & on about the indestructibility of coal. COAL.

#idiocracy #USpol #WEF #geopolitics
#AI #technocracy #broligarchy #energy #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis

“#Coal is very strong as a backup,” #Trump told the conference. “Nothing can destroy coal, not the weather, not a bomb, nothing.” [wait, whaaaat?]

“It might make it a little smaller, might make it a little different shape, but coal is very strong as a backup. It’s a great backup to have that facility … and we have more coal than anybody. We also have more #oil & #gas than everybody.”

#WEF
#AI #technocracy #broligarchy #energy #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis

“I’m going to give emergency declarations so they can start building them almost immediately.”

#Trump then went on to criticize the nation’s electric #grid, calling it old while noting that he would allow the #tech companies to rely on any #fuel that they want to run the plants. And if the energy plants fail, Trump claimed the country could return to “good clean #coal.”

#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
#WEF #AI #technocracy #broligarchy #USpol

Then it got weird.

#Trump said he would use an emergency declaration to produce “electric generating plants”

“I think it was largely my idea because nobody thought this was possible. It wasn’t that they’re not smart because they’re the smartest. But I told them that what I want you to do is build your electric generating plant right next to your plant & connect it. And they said, ‘Wow, you’re kidding,’ & I said, ‘No, no, I’m not kidding.’”

#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
#WEF

Patrick Pouyanné, Chair of the Board & CEO, #TotalEnergies, asked what #Trump's views were on a pause on Liquid #NaturalGas projects & whether he would agree to guarantee an increased supply of US #LNG to Europe.

Trump said he would agree to guarantee supplies of #US #energy to Europe.

"The big problem is we need double the energy we currently have in the #UnitedStates... for #AI to really be as big as we want to have it."

#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
#WEF #economy #geopolitics
#USpol

Schwarzman asked what #Trump’s doing on #regulation.

Trump: "From the standpoint of America, the EU treats us very, very unfairly, very badly. They have a large tax."

"They essentially don't take our farm products & they don't take our cars, yet they send cars to us by the millions."

"We have hundreds of billions of dollars of deficits w/the EU & nobody's happy with it. And we're going to do something about it, but nobody's happy with it. So I think the EU has to speed up their process”

#Trump spoke at length about his call w/ #SaudiArabia’s Mohammed bin Salman. #MBS told Trump that he plans to invest $600B over the next 4 years.

“I’ll be asking the crown prince, who’s a fantastic guy, to round it out to around 1 trillion. I think they’ll do that because we’ve been very good to them.”

During Q&A, Stephen Schwarzman, the Chair, CEO & CoFounder of Blackstone Group began by saying, “I'm sure the crown prince of Saudi Arabia will be really glad you gave this speech today.”

"I've deployed active duty US #military & #NationalGuard troops to the #border to assist in repelling the *invasion*. It was really an invasion. We will not allow our territory to be violated after 4 long years."

"Before even taking office, my team negotiated a ceasefire agreement in the #MiddleEast, which wouldn't have happened without us."

"Our efforts to secure a peace settlement between #Russia & #Ukraine are now, hopefully, underway…."

– #Trump