There was high security, high stakes and high tension in the Alps for the arrival of the would-be sheriff of the world, brandishing his new rules.<\/p>\n
The reaction in the room ranged.<\/p>\n
The president’s attempts at charm seemed to win him polite applause. But as he went from rigged elections to his annoyance at other leaders’ Davos speeches, some sat in disbelief.<\/p>\n
Even though he promised not to invade Greenland, many were stunned by his attempts to persuade Europe to hand over the territory.<\/p>\n
Gavin Newsom, the Democrat Governor of California said the speech was TACO Tuesday, a reference to the “Trump always chickens out” catchphrase used to mock the president.<\/p>\n
He argued Trump had backed down after robust pushback from President Macron and Mark Carney<\/p>\n
A key Republican senator, Thomas Tillis, said the president’s pursuit of Greenland, even a negotiated annexation, would not have the backing of Congress.<\/p>\n
So while Trump attempted to dial down tensions, he still criticised allies – including personal attacks on leaders.<\/p>\n
And while he promised not to invade Greenland, he still said it will be part of the new America – and that the world should thank him for it.<\/p>\n
The speech may have eventually come to an end, but we will be talking about it for a long time to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was high security, high stakes and high tension in the Alps for the arrival of the would-be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}