I suppose that it all bleeds together, but my thought was that this thread might focus on foreign reaction to Trump, while the other post was about the mental gymnastics the people who support Trump engage in.
7 days ago
I don't usually post things from facebook, but this, from the other 98% describes the reaction to Lutnick
Christine Lagarde did what a lot of people in that Davos room were only fantasizing about: she stood up and walked out while Howard Lutnick got booed for lecturing Europe like a rabid Fox News pundit. As the trump commerce chief leaned into his favorite line that “globalization has failed the West and the United States of America” and railed that Europe’s push for net zero would make it “reliant” and even “subservient” to China, the head of the European Central Bank simply decided she was done providing silent reaction shots for his campaign reel. The jeers were already rolling by the time she left, turning the VIP dinner into something closer to a bad town hall than a cozy elites only networking night. Lagarde is not some fragile technocrat. She is a seasoned power player, former IMF boss and now the woman steering monetary policy for the eurozone, and she has spent the week in Davos talking up European unity and strength in the face of trump’s tariff threats and Greenland fantasies. So when Lutnick used a closed door dinner to belittle Europe’s economy and competitiveness compared to U.S. “prowess,” people in the room say that was the point where she quietly stood up and left, a move that read like a hard no to being a prop in a nationalist stump speech. The ECB kept its line with a crisp “no comment,” which only made the gesture louder. The room did not exactly rise to save Lutnick. Reports describe “widespread jeering,” scattered applause from the MAGA curious set and at least one very public heckler in Al Gore, followed by Fink pleading for calm as the scene went off the rails and the dinner ended before dessert. In a week when trump’s people came to Switzerland to project dominance, the enduring image is Europe’s top central banker voting with her feet while the room boos.
I don't know if this was before or after this
https://youtu.be/SOS5LE-JIqE?si=g0csevodCtxm_hX1
I suppose that it all bleeds together, but my thought was that this thread might focus on foreign reaction to Trump, while the other post was about the mental gymnastics the people who support Trump engage in.
I don't usually post things from facebook, but this, from the other 98% describes the reaction to Lutnick
Christine Lagarde did what a lot of people in that Davos room were only fantasizing about: she stood up and walked out while Howard Lutnick got booed for lecturing Europe like a rabid Fox News pundit. As the trump commerce chief leaned into his favorite line that “globalization has failed the West and the United States of America” and railed that Europe’s push for net zero would make it “reliant” and even “subservient” to China, the head of the European Central Bank simply decided she was done providing silent reaction shots for his campaign reel. The jeers were already rolling by the time she left, turning the VIP dinner into something closer to a bad town hall than a cozy elites only networking night.
Lagarde is not some fragile technocrat. She is a seasoned power player, former IMF boss and now the woman steering monetary policy for the eurozone, and she has spent the week in Davos talking up European unity and strength in the face of trump’s tariff threats and Greenland fantasies. So when Lutnick used a closed door dinner to belittle Europe’s economy and competitiveness compared to U.S. “prowess,” people in the room say that was the point where she quietly stood up and left, a move that read like a hard no to being a prop in a nationalist stump speech. The ECB kept its line with a crisp “no comment,” which only made the gesture louder.
The room did not exactly rise to save Lutnick. Reports describe “widespread jeering,” scattered applause from the MAGA curious set and at least one very public heckler in Al Gore, followed by Fink pleading for calm as the scene went off the rails and the dinner ended before dessert. In a week when trump’s people came to Switzerland to project dominance, the enduring image is Europe’s top central banker voting with her feet while the room boos.
I don't know if this was before or after this
https://youtu.be/SOS5LE-JIqE?si=g0csevodCtxm_hX1
Here is von der Leyen's speech
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_150