Here is the President’s closing Presser at Davos – chock full and quite revealing. Major news drop concerns the reshaping of the WTO:
Transcript from The President’s Presser found at the link HERE and printed out at the end of this thread: https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-remarks-by-president-trump-in-press-conference-1841160983
Take a look at the picture in the header. See all the distance between President Trump on the left and the guy who introduced him on the right? THAT’s how far apart America is from the globalist economic model……. and it’s a good thing.
We are winning. THEY are losing. We are full of optimism for our future. They are forecasting doom and the end of civilization. We have record-shattering and historic results in our economy. They are in the doldrums.
It reminds me of living with an alcoholic. At some point, we just don’t want to be around them anymore. President Trump has plucked their feathers and left the chicken naked, perfectly set up for an EU Trade Deal. Our guy is brutal, “but takes the lumps out”……. like his dad taught him. Are the globalists, particularly in the EU, close to capitulation?
Here he is, our President, “As long as they’re fair, we’re not going to have a problem.”, but he has those tariffs in his back pocket, the tariffs which he imposed, and HE wields like a club. I mean, he makes it look so easy and we KNOW it is not. How did we get so lucky to get this guy as our President? He’s taking us all to school.
You’ve probably already heard by now, the entire focus of Davos 2020 is “The Voice of Youth”, Climate Change, and income inequality. It’s a socialists wonderland. Yet, our President likened the Eco-Communists a Davos to the Fortune Tellers of old, foreshadowing doomsday, wearing the mask, intentionally hiding their desires to assume power and control our future. Spot on, Mr. President, as usual. “They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune tellers…they predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 70s and the end of oil in the 1990s.”, President Trump at Davos, 2020.
Wonder who he was talking about?
Can you imagine Donald Trump as your dad, and you trying to hide something from him? Put one over on him? Or trying to sneak into the house past curfew? No way…. no teenager could ever get past a dad like Trump, but I digress. Don’t you wonder how he has the patience to sit through the dribble and be gentile?
Enough of the fear and dread. Gheez, they are toxic. Have you heard the good news?
We have our own QTreeper IN DAVOS!!!!!!!!!! Yes, MA_KSwiss is there! We really are the news! Check out yesterday’s thread for KSwiss’ journey to Davos and her experience there. Great stuff. We’re lucky to span the globe!
In case you were wondering, our President has MAJOR star power. Look at all the billionaires and international press straining to get close to him. LOOK at the top of the photo, two deep on the mezzanine, hanging over the edges to catch a glimpse of the guy from Queens, a man named Trump.
Note to all: Our dearest FLEP is posting all the bi-lats the President had yesterday, along with the President’s comments at dinner. Thank you, FLEP. Our Davos coverage is exxxpanding. Hehe….. Pretty soon we’re going to need our own studio and a satellite feed!
Here is the full speech President Trump gave yesterday. Charles Payne on Fox Biz was so excited by his speech, I thought we were going to have to pry Charles off the studio ceiling. Charles is a BIG man, bit there was SO MUCH spring in his step yesterday, he was walking like a pixie.
Here is the President’s schedule for tomorrow. Did he sleep at all?
- President’s schedule tomorrow according to Mark Knoller of CBS: Wednesday in Davos:
- Pres Trump’s 2nd and final day at the @wef
- -breakfast with American business CEOs
- -bilat with Pres Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Govt
- -bilat with Iraqi Pres Salilh
- (Note: The Fox Biz interview is in here somewhere)
- -departs Davos for DC. Due back 5:10pm.
Pretty quick trip, eh? We have a betting pool going at our house. I think the President will come home with at least 200 Billion in deals. Big T says 100 billion. We know Governor Abbot of Texas has already landed a big fish, but he’s not sharing details. Not a bad “net” for a day and a half of work.
We had MANY comments yesterday which were “stop and make you think”, deep strategy on geopolitics, or great links and back up. I wanted to share a few in case you missed some. Thank you to all who contributed. It’s easy for me to throw up a thread (while I’m making blueberry muffins), but the contributions of QTreepers are why we keep coming back.
On Climate Change: Are you tired of condescending third world leaders lecturing the civilized world about Climate Change, while they have their hands out? The hypocrisy makes our skin crawl. Plumnelly1 made a post yesterday which bares repeating here. It’s a perfect response and timely piece to emphasize President Trump’s main theme in his speech ~ The Fortune Tellers who use fear to control our lives:
Roy at Breitbart has got it figured out…
Roy from Breitbart, via PlumNelly1 and verified by Snopes, here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/warm-welcome/
call me Roy • 5 hours ago
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate at Bergen Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.
Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the Gulf Stream still very warm.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelt which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
* * *
* * * * * *
I must apologize.
I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post – 96 years ago.
This must have been caused by the Model T Ford’s emissions or possibly from horse and cattle flatulence?
Even the left wing SNOPES say’s this is true !!
Eisenhower deep dive and the Q Post: Wolfie’s long comment and several others who chimed in on the latest Q post and Eisenhower’s warning and response to the Military Industrial Complex, is a great series and worth a look. Doesn’t matter how you may feel about Q, this series was informative general history and a lively discussion.
Geopolitics going forward, what is Team Trump planning?: The surprise at the end of yesterday’s thread which made me stop on a dime…….. came from BlackKnightRides. Gosh, we did miss him, didn’t we? He sees President Trump laying out the agenda for 2021. Take a look. My spidey-senses are all tingly.
The POTUS PATTERN for Davos:
• UK wants to cut a really great post-BREXIT Trade Deal
… as a SEA-LANE CONDUIT to end-run Tariffs on the EU.
… for PRODUCTS that POTUS allows to do so.
… BOOSTING the impact of upcoming Tariffs to force an EU Deal
… ENRICHING them for FIRST-to-EXIT the EU with BREXIT.• Swiss now want to cut a really great post-BREXIT Trade Deal
… as an AIR-FREIGHT CONDUIT to end-run Tariffs on the EU.
… for PRODUCTS that POTUS allows to do so.
… BOOSTING the impact of upcoming Tariffs to force an EU Deal
… MAXING the pressure for others to EXIT the EU for Reciprocal Trade Deals of their own.• Pakistan now positioning for a USAPak Trade Deal
… as a competing prod for dithering India to EARN their own Deal
… with opportunities to DISPLACE imports from China as they miss purchase hurdles
… and SAND in the COGS of China’s Belt & Road initiative.The geopolitical ramifications of a Pakistan Deal could be STUNNING:
BKR, January 21, 2020.
• Assigning Pakistan to create the Afghan Solution
• Working a rapprochement between Pakistan and India over Kashmir
• Goosing India to sign a Reciprocal Trade Deal of their own
• Thwarting China while we’re at it.
And no sooner than Black Knight Rides laid it all out, but Phoenix Rising posted the following…… made the hair stand up on the back of my neck……Looky here.
Added to the mix was the realization yesterday of how Team Trump uses the economy as a weapon, both offensively……….. and defensively to begin alleviating major threats for a “Black Swan Event” like a nuclear weapon from DPRK in Japan or a crisis in the Middle East. We’ve never seen another administration use our economy so effectively. PLUS, the realization that Google, Twitter, Facebook, are compromised when it comes to threatening our President for the election of 2020. American Big tech needs Daddy Trump to protect them from taxes and scalping by the EU. Germany/France are desperate to find funds to make up for the loss of UK after Brexit, and of course, American Big Tech as a big fat pocket to fleece. Big Tech HAS to play nicely and they know no Dem candidate could defend them as well as President Trump. See what I mean?
We think we’re connecting dots from the ether, we catch a glimpse of what might be happening on a bigger stage, for the benefit of us all, and just when we think we’re feeling pretty smart and proud of ourselves ……….. this happened. Macron tweeted to Trump and Trump responded……… and we realize President Trump is already 10 steps ahead of us.
What a glorious time to be alive!
Q Treepers certainly gave us quite a bit to think about yesterday. Wonder what will happen today? I’m still learning to ski, KSwiss said there would be hot chocolate!
Love to all!
Transcript from the President Trump Presser in Davos:
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 22, 2020
**
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT TRUMP
IN PRESS CONFERENCE
Davos Congress Centre
Davos, Switzerland
————————————————————
** 12:33 P.M. CET
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please come on up, Roberto and Larry. Robert, Steve, come on up.
Good afternoon. We’ve had a tremendous two days here. We’ll be heading back right after this conference, and I’ve just concluded some additional meetings. We’ve had a lot of them. I think Davos has treated us really beautifully. It’s been a tremendous success. Everyone is talking about America’s unprecedented economic success. It’s really the talk of the town, so to speak.
Since my election, America has gained over 7 million new jobs. The unemployment rate is now the lowest in over half a century. The average unemployment rate for my administration is the lowest of any U.S. President in recorded history, which is very nice; we have some good ones. We have some bad ones too, by the way.
Unemployment rates among African American, Hispanic American, Asian Americans has reached a record low in the history of our country — the lowest. African American youth unemployment has reached the lowest in the history of our country. So proud of that. African American poverty numbers have plummeted to their lowest rate ever recorded. Doing really well.
Unemployment rate for women has reached the lowest level in almost 70 years. And the veterans unemployment rate dropped to a record low. Unemployment rate for disabled Americans has reached its all-time record low also. These are incredible numbers, Rob.
Workers without a high school diploma have received the — and achieved the lowest unemployment rate ever in recorded history. And that’s so important. Without a high school diploma — we have a lot of great people that don’t have a high school diploma. So we have record-low unemployment.
A record number of young Americans are now employed. We have the highest number of people working in our country that we’ve ever had before. We’ve never had anything even close. We’re almost up to 160 million.
And we’ve lifted 10 million people off of welfare. And you know all about food stamps; we talk about it all the time. But millions and millions of people don’t need food stamps anymore. It’s not that we’ve lifted them off, which we have, but they don’t need them anymore; they have jobs. They’re doing really well.
The U.S. stock markets have soared and they’ve reached the highest point that they’ve ever, ever had. We’ve made at least $19 trillion, in terms of wealth — in terms of wealth creation for our country, beyond the stock markets.
And we are now, by far, the biggest economy in the world. China would have caught us. They were getting very close. It was anticipated that, in 2019 — this is for many years; I’m not telling you any secrets — that, by 2019, China would become the largest economy in the world. And right now we’re much larger. But we have a great new deal with China. A great deal.
And we have, I would say, our best relationship that we’ve ever had with China, on top of everything else.
And we’re starting phase two. Phase one turned out to be much bigger than we anticipated, because we have intellectual property protections. We have — many of the financial deals and aspects of the financial deals that we wanted, we got done, and other things.
In addition to the farmers, we’ve got the total, complete package for the farmers. And we think that’ll — we estimate that will be anywhere between $40- and $50 billion. The number, I think, is going to be closer to $50 billion. The most they’ve ever done is $16 [billion]. So we go from $16 [billion] to anywhere from $40- to $50 billion that they’ll be purchasing.
We’re an economic powerhouse like, actually, we’ve never been. Jobs, factories, companies are pouring back into the United States. That’s one of the reasons I’ve been in Davos, is we have had conversations with other leaders of other countries where we’ve traditionally had tremendous deficits.
I say, “You have to move factories and plants back here.” They took a lot of them. They actually took a lot of them, and now they’re going to move them back. They’re not going to move them back; the companies are coming back because everybody wants to be here. But the countries also understand that we have to balance out our trade, and we’re doing incredibly well in that way.
And one of the people that was very important for me to meet from the World Trade Organization is Roberto Azevêdo. And he is a highly respected man. He happens to be this gentleman right here. I thought I’d have him say a few words.
But the World Trade Organization — as you know, I’ve had a dispute running with them for quite a while, because our country hasn’t been treated fairly. China is viewed as a developing nation. India is viewed as a developing nation. We’re not viewed a developing nation. As far as I’m concerned, we’re a developing nation, too. But they got tremendous advantages by the fact that they were considered “developing” and we weren’t. And they shouldn’t be. But if they are, we are. And we’re talking about a whole new structure for the deal, or we’ll have to do something.
But the World Trade Organization has been very unfair to the United States for many, many years. And without it, China wouldn’t be China, and China wouldn’t be where they are right now. I mean, China — that was the vehicle that they used. And I give them great credit. And I also don’t give the people that were in my position great credit, because, frankly, they let that all happen. But the vehicle was the World Trade Organization.
And Roberto and I have a tremendous relationship, and we’re going to do something that I think will be very dramatic. He’ll be coming with a lot of his representatives to Washington sometime — maybe next week or the week after — and we’ll start working on it.
So I’d like to introduce, just for — briefly — Roberto, and say a few words on behalf of the WTO. And then I’m going to introduce Larry Kudlow to say exactly where we are, in terms of our economy. Some of you know, but we’ve had some tremendous numbers just over the very recent past.
So, please, Roberto.
DIRECTOR-GENERAL AZEVÊDO: Well, thank you, Mr. President. And I think it’s fair to say that we have been saying, for quite some time, that if the multilateral system, if the WTO is to deliver and perform its role in today’s global economy, it has to be updated. It has to be changed. It has to be reformed.
This is an agenda that is squarely before members. I don’t think anybody in Geneva misses the point. I think they understand that the — the system has not been functioning properly in many areas. That’s something that we’re trying to address.
I’m very happy that, in the conversation today with President Trump, he agreed that this is something that needs to happen; the WTO has to change. We are committed to effect those changes. And this is something that we’re serious about.
And I am going to be, together with President Trump, as soon as possible, discussing what needs to change, what needs to be effected in the WTO, and we’re committed to doing that.
And, of course, I will be talking to all of the other WTO members, making sure that they all understand that this is serious. This is a path that we all have to be on together if we want to make the WTO relevant and performing to today’s requirements, frankly.
So thank you very much, Mr. President. It’s an honor to be with you and with everybody else. Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Great.
Larry, please. Larry Kudlow.
MR. KUDLOW: Oh, thank you, sir. So I think we’re coming into the new year with a lot of positive momentum in the economy. And, again, I want to repeat the President’s speech yesterday: These are transformational free enterprise policies, lower tax rates across the board, deregulation, energy independence, and breaking down trade barriers for better deals for exporting.
Just recently, we’ve seen all the confidence surveys are strong — consumer confidence, business confidence, small business confidence. The huge stock market rally, which continues, is, I believe, a sign of business and consumer confidence and predicting an even stronger economy in 2020.
Also, lately, housing markets are very strong. We’ve seen some huge numbers in new housing starts, and existing and new home sales. That’s a great omen; it’s the leading indicator. And even with softness in manufacturing last year, we’re seeing now the IHS Markit surveys for PMI manufacturing up four straight months for the U.S. And I think that’s a terrific sign of a comeback.
I think the President’s trade deals have inspired a lot of confidence among large and small businesses, and I think it’s going to add at least a half a point to GDP this year. I think we’re going to be moving into the 3 percent zone. We still have to cope with the slowdown in Boeing. We’ll see how that plays out. But I think USMCA and the China deals are going to add a lot to growth this year and the years ahead.
And the great part about this, to me — I’ve been around for a while — is, when you look inside, look under the hood, in this growth spurt, with 3.5 percent unemployment and virtually no inflation — which itself is a remarkable development — it is the American middle class, it is the American blue-collar middle class — they have the fastest wage growth. And, in fact, the lower-wage folks are getting the fastest wage increases, exceeding significantly from what their managers are making.
And I would add also, as the President has indicated: In this stock market rally, I know it’s commonplace to say it only helps a few rich people. That is just not true. Over half the households in this country own shares through 401(k)s, and IRAs, and brokerage accounts, and so forth. You look at the numbers — and the CEA just published a great slide book on this — the bottom 50 percent has had a 47 percent increase in their net wealth — consumer net wealth — between home prices and share prices, and that is a booster rocket to this economy. It not only gives them confidence, it gives them some serious spending power, and the consumer spending numbers bear it out.
So, ours is an optimistic message, and I think the President really carried the day in his speech yesterday.
Thank you, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Larry. I mean, when you think that, soon — it’ll start pretty soon. It’s already started, to a certain extent. I asked them to do it. China is going to be purchasing more than $250 billion worth of goods from our country. That’s massive. Those are numbers that nobody has ever heard of before. And that number can grow. It can grow. With time, it’s going to grow substantially, I predict.
And then you have the USMCA — Mexico, Canada — and that’s massive numbers we’re talking about there. And we made a deal with Japan — $40 billion. And we made a deal with South Korea. That’s a tremendous deal, also. That was a horrible deal, and we turned it into a really good deal. So it was really something.
While we were in Davos — most of you know this — we met with the world leaders — various world leaders, including the President of the European Commission, who we’re going to start negotiating a trade deal with, because the European Commission was, frankly, in many ways, tougher than China. I say that respectfully, but that’s the way it is. They’ve taken advantage for a long time.
And so we’re going to have a deal. I suspect we’re going to be able to make a deal. Otherwise, we’ll have to do something else. And they’ll — they’ll — I think they’re going to make a deal. They haven’t wanted to negotiate with past Presidents, but they’re going to negotiate with me. The President of the Swiss Confederation, who’s been very nice and terrific; the President of Kurdistan — we had a tremendous meeting; along with President Salih of Iraq, Prime Minister Khan of Pakistan, and President Ghani of Afghanistan.
In addition, we met with many of the business leaders — both at breakfast today, and lunch yesterday, and dinner yesterday. Many of you were at those meetings, at least for a little while. And tremendous numbers of jobs will be coming into the United States.
A lot of these leaders — these are the biggest business leaders in the world, and this morning was very inspirational. I mean, these companies are really going to expand. And it was a request of mine, but what we did — we’ve been very good to them. They’re all doing very well.
And we have companies from Europe, companies from Asia now coming to the United States. “That’s where the action is,” as one of them said. “That’s where the action is.” So it’s really been — it’s really been great.
And now we’ll be going — we’ll be leaving and going back to Washington. Okay?
Yes.
Q Mr. President, (inaudible).
THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead.
Q All right. Mr. President, do you want to hear from witnesses in the impeachment trial? Your team has been a little inconsistent on this.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I’ll tell you the way I look at it: It’s a total hoax. It’s a disgrace. They talked about their tremendous case. And it’s all done — their tremendous case. They had no case. It’s all a hoax. It’s a con job. Like Schiff — he’s a corrupt politician.
Now, I’ll leave that to the Senate. The Senate is going to have to answer that. I have great respect for the Senate, as a body and many of the individuals. I have great respect. So I’ll leave that to the Senate.
But this is the greatest witch hunt. This started from the day I came down with the future First Lady. The day we came down the escalator, this started. And I watched the — they’ve been driven crazy. You know what’s driven them crazy? All of these record numbers on unemployment — African American, Asian American. You take a look. Hispanic American is numbers that nobody has even believing. They look at all of this. They’re looking at this tremendous success, the likes of which they’ve never seen before in this country. They’ve never seen anything like this. And it’s driven the Democrats crazy.
As Congressman Green said — Al Green. He’s a beauty. As Congressman Green said, “We got to beat him by impeachment because we can’t beat him in the election.” And I hope that’s true, because, honestly, they can’t beat me in the election. I don’t think they can. I know what they’re — I know what I’ll be running against. One way or the other, it’s one of them. And I think we’re going to do very well.
But I think we’re going to do well because nobody has done, in the first three years — less than three years, because a lot of these numbers were taken from two months ago; they ended two months ago. In less than three years, nobody has done the kind of numbers we’ve done.
So I’m going to head back and I’ll be watching it, but it’s really going to be up to the Senate. We’re going to have them make that determination.
Please. Please.
Q Yes, Mr. President. You were the keynote speaker here, but you shared some of the spotlight with a Scandinavian teenager: Greta Thunberg —
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, that’s very nice.
Q — who you had said needs to work on her anger. She had some very harsh words about —
THE PRESIDENT: I didn’t say “anger.” I said “anger management.”
Q “Anger management.” Yes, sir.
She had some very strong words here that the United States and other industrialized countries need to do more. Do you still feel that you’re doing enough? You talk about clean air —
THE PRESIDENT: How old — how old is she?
Q She’s —
Q Seventeen.
Q Seventeen now. Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh. That’s good.
Q But what is your response to her —
THE PRESIDENT: She beat me out on TIME Magazine.
Q But did you hear from other world leaders and business leaders who said that they think that she has a message that you should listen to?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I didn’t, actually. But I would have loved to have seen her speak. I did not.
Q Do you still think climate change is hoax?
THE PRESIDENT: No, not at all. I think what is — I think aspects of it are. I think that some people are — they put it at a level that is, you know, unrealistic, to a point you can’t live your lives.
We want to have the cleanest water on Earth. We want to have the cleanest air on Earth. Our numbers, as you saw — we had record numbers come out very recently. Our numbers are very, very good — our environmental numbers. Our water numbers, our — our numbers on air are tremendous.
We have to do something about other continents. We have to do something about other countries. When we’re clean and beautiful and everything is good, but you have another continent where the fumes are rising at levels that you can’t believe — I mean, I think Greta ought to focus on those places.
But we are doing better right now than we’ve ever done, in terms of cleanliness, in terms of numbers. We have a beautiful ocean called the Pacific Ocean, where thousands and thousands of tons of garbage flows toward us, and that’s put there by other countries. So I think Greta has to start working on those other countries.
Q Mr. President —
THE PRESIDENT: By the way, congratulations on your show.
Q Thank you very much.
THE PRESIDENT: They made a very wise decision.
Q Thank you very much. Well, we invite you for an interview whenever you’re available.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, good.
Q Can I ask you just to be clear, and for future Presidents: Is abuse of power an impeachable offense?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you’ve got to talk to the lawyers about it. But I will tell you: There’s nothing here. I had a very innocent conversation with a very fine gentleman from the Ukraine, and it was based on that. People don’t even want to talk about the conversation. I got to watch glimpses in between all of these meetings that I just told you about. I got to watch glimpses of what is taking place, wasting time, in Washington.
And I watched — they don’t talk about my conversation. They don’t talk about my transcripts. Remember this: When Schiff made up the phony story, and he repeated it to Congress and the world — and it was a totally phony story — then I released the transcript. There was supposed to be a second whistleblower. What happened to him? There was — wait, wait. Otherwise, I won’t do your show. (Laughter.) Wait. There was supposed to be an informer. What happened to the informer?
All of these people disappeared. And when they saw this transcript, they said, “We got problems.” But they went ahead because they were already there because they — they had a phony, concocted story made up.
So here’s the story: I did nothing wrong. It was a perfect conversation. It was totally appropriate. The best lawyers in the world have looked at it. The Department of Justice has looked at it, given it a sign-off. There was nothing wrong.
They never thought I was going to release the conversation. They probably didn’t think we had transcribers or we had it trans- — transcribed or taped. But they never thought we were going to release it. When we released that conversation, all hell broke out with the Democrats, because they say, “Wait a minute. This is much different than Shifty Schiff told us.”
So we’re doing very well. I got to watch enough. I thought our team did a very good job. But honestly, we have all the material. They don’t have the material.
Q I ask you because your attorneys say it’s not. Alan Dershowitz says the framers of the Constitution did not permit impeachment on grounds like abuse of power or obstruction. They objected open-ended, vague criteria.
So for future Presidents, is abuse of power an impeachable offense?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, it depends. But if you take a look at this, and from what everybody tells me, all I do is — I’m honest. I make great deals. I’ve made great deals for our country. Now we’re working with the WTO. You’re probably surprised by that, but this has been a long-term, abusive situation to the U.S. I make great deals for our country, and they’re honest deals.
And when you read that transcription — and, by the way, it wasn’t one call; it was two calls. Nobody likes to talk about that. There was one call, which was perfect, and then there was a second call — I guess, a couple of months later — which was perfect.
The President of Ukraine said it was perfect. The Foreign Minister of Ukraine said it was perfect. So if we have a transcription, we have the call, and we have the person on the other side of the call saying it was good —
Now, here’s the other thing: They got their money long before schedule. They got all their money. What nobody says — this is very important to me: Why isn’t Germany paying? Why isn’t UK paying? Why isn’t France paying? Why aren’t the European nations paying? Why is it always the sucker — United States? That’s one.
And the other thing I wanted to check very carefully — and it’s very important — is corruption. And we do that, too. This was a perfect call, and I think we’re doing very well.
Q Mr. President, (inaudible). Thank you, Mr. President. For the phase two of the China trade deal, do you expect human rights in Hong Kong to be a part of the discussion?
THE PRESIDENT: We are discussing that already. Yes. We would like to see if we can do something. But again, we’re doing a trade deal, and it’s — it’s a very big deal. Phase one is done. Phase two is being discussed.
We are discussing aspects of your question. Yes.
Q Mr. President, thank you. Just to clarify on (inaudible) question. We know that Senate will set the rules for witnesses, but what do you want? At one point, you demanded a witness (inaudible) —
THE PRESIDENT: I can live either way. I can live —
Q But what do you want?
THE PRESIDENT: I’ll tell you what I think: It’s such a hoax. I think it’s so bad for our country. When we have the head of the World Trade Organization here, and he has to listen to this nonsense about a call that was perfect, that nobody talks about. I never see them talking about the transcription. I never see them talking about the call, because there’s nothing to say.
You read it — somebody should just sit there and read it. And everybody’s going to say, “You mean that’s an impeachable event?” If that were impeachable, Lyndon Johnson would have had to leave office in his first day. Kennedy would have had to leave office his first day. It’s a hoax. And you understand it’s a hoax better than anybody. It’s a hoax. And that’s the way it is.
Yeah, go ahead.
Q Mr. President, a question on Iran: Initially, you said repeatedly to Americans that after Iran retaliated for the Soleimani strike, no Americans were injured. We now know at least 11 U.S. service men were airlifted from Iraq. Can you explain the discrepancy?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I heard that they had headaches, and a couple of other things. But I would say, and I can report it is not very serious. Not very serious.
Q So you don’t consider a potential traumatic brain injury serious?
THE PRESIDENT: They told me about it numerous days later. You’d have to ask Department of Defense. No, I don’t consider them very serious injuries, relative to other injuries that I’ve seen.
I’ve seen what Iran has done with their roadside bombs to our troops. I’ve seen people with no legs and with no arms. I’ve seen people that were horribly, horribly injured in that area, that war — in fact, many cases put — those bombs put there by Soleimani, who is no longer with us. I consider them to be really bad injuries.
No, I do not consider that to be bad injuries. No.
Q Mr. President, can I ask you about the EU trade deal: Do you have any timeline for that? And if you don’t hit that timeline, if there is one, are you automatically going to go to auto tariffs or is there another —
THE PRESIDENT: I have a timeline.
Q — is there another avenue, other than auto tariffs?
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah. Great question, actually. I don’t have a timeline, but maybe I do, in my own mind. They have to move relatively quickly, but they have to treat us fairly.
The European Union was formed pretty much for this reason, I suspect — you know, if you really think about it. Why was it formed? They formed their airplane company, which does very nicely, and now is doing better than ever because Boeing has not had a good time of it. They have — they have — they better start recovering fast. I hope they do. They have some good people in there now. They have great people in the company, but they have some good people leading it now. So, hopefully, that will be taken care of.
But, I — no, I have a date in my mind, and it’s a fairly quick date. And if we’re unable to make a deal, then we’ll do even better. We’ll do even better.
Q Are auto tariffs (inaudible)?
THE PRESIDENT: But they haven’t treated us right. Look, the United States has been losing $150 billon, and more, for many years — $150 billion. More. I mean, really, more than that — with the European Union. They have trade barriers where you can’t trade. They have tariffs all over the place. They make it impossible.
They are, frankly, more difficult to do business with than China. We have a great relationship with China now. We had some testy moments — very testy. Beyond testy. Worse than a lot of people would understand. But we got it done, and I think phase two will go nicely also.
But with the European Union — and, frankly, I’ll be honest, I wanted to wait until I finished China before I went to work on, respectfully, Europe.
But Europe — you know, it’s so beautiful. I guess a lot of us come, indirectly, from Europe. Isn’t that nice? But they are actually more difficult to do business with than China. All you have to do is ask Boris. But I think Boris is going to be okay, too. I think he’s going to come out great. I think he has — he had a lot of guts. He’s done a terrific job. I think he’s in a good position, which they would have never been able to do before Boris.
I have a date. I have a very specific date in my mind.
Q Before or after the election? (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: Before. I think — I think we’ll have a deal before.
Q With the EU?
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, I think so. I mean, they have to do that. I mean, I don’t want to — look, I’m not saying it from strength or from weakness; I’m just saying they have to do it.
They wanted to make a deal. This — our nation, our country wanted to make a deal under President Obama. The EU refused to talk to him. And then they said, “No, no, we like it the way it is.” Of course they like it the way it is; they’re making $150 billion-plus, right?
And, as you know, President Bush was desperate to make a deal. They wouldn’t even talk to him.
Me, they’re talking to, and we’ll have a deal. If we don’t have a deal, we’ll do even better.
Q Mr. President —
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, ma’am. Go ahead.
Q Is it true that you’re considering extending the travel ban? And, if so —
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
Q — to which countries?
THE PRESIDENT: So we have a travel ban. It’s a very powerful ban. And a lot of — I heard a reporter recently say, “He lost the ban in court.” They didn’t say that we won it in the Supreme Court. I’d say that’s a little deceptive, John, wouldn’t you? He said, “He lost the travel ban.” I didn’t lose the travel ban. The travel ban was lost in the lower courts and won in the Supreme Court, two years ago.
No, we are — we’re adding a couple of countries to it. We have to be safe. Our country has to be safe. You see what’s going on in the world. Our country has to be safe.
So we have a very strong travel ban, and we’ll be adding a few countries to it.
Q Could you give us a hint about the region or the countries?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, no, you’re going to — it’s going to be announced very shortly. Okay?
John. Yeah, John.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. In regards to the proceedings going on in the Senate, would you like to see this over quickly? Would you like to see a thorough examination of the facts? What did you make of the dustup between the White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Jerrold Nadler last night? And are you absolutely against John Bolton testifying?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you’re asking a lot of questions.
Q Three. That’s not a lot.
THE PRESIDENT: First of all, Jerrold Nadler — I’ve known him a long time. He’s a sleazebag; everybody knows that.
Pat Cipollone is a high-quality human being. I was very impressed with Pat. He had great emotion yesterday. Pat is a brilliant guy, but I’ve never seen that emotion. And that’s real emotion. That’s because he knows this is a hoax. And I was very proud of the job he did.
I’ve known — I’ve known Jerry Nadler for a long time. He’s opposed many of my jobs. I got them all built — very successfully built in New York. But — so we have yet another fight. Isn’t it — isn’t it amazing? Isn’t it surprising? Isn’t it amazing?
But if you look at, you know, other aspects or other parts of your question, I think that the — I would rather go the long way. I would rather interview Bolton. I would rather interview a lot of people.
The problem with John is that it’s a national security problem. You know, you can’t have somebody who’s at national security — and, if you think about it, John, he knows some of my thoughts. He knows what I think about leaders. What happens if he reveals what I think about a certain leader, and it’s not very positive, and then I have to deal on behalf of the country? It’s going to be very hard. It’s going to make the job very hard.
He knows other things. And I don’t know if we left on the best of terms. I would say probably not, you know. And so, you don’t like people testifying when they didn’t leave on good terms — and that was due to me, not due to him. And so, we’ll see what happens.
But when you have a national security — where you could call it “presidential prerogative.” You could just call it — the way I look at it, I call it “national security” — for national security reasons. “Executive privilege,” they say. So that would — John would certainly fit into that. When you’re a national security advisor — like this gentleman is doing a fantastic job, Robert — I just think it’s very hard.
And I’ve always gotten along — I’ve actually gotten along with John Bolton. He didn’t get along with other people — a lot of other people. But when he knows my thoughts on certain people in other governments — and we’re talking about massive trade deals, and war and peace, and all these different things that we talk about — that’s really a very important national security problem, I think.
Having somebody — other people — Mick Mulvaney is probably around here someplace. I’d love to have Mick go, but I think that he’s really expressed himself very well when he did a Chris Wallace interview. That was a very, very powerful interview. That was a long, tough — Chris is a tough interviewer. A very talented guy. And, you know, I think it’s not much he can add. He’s been — he’s been great.
I would like to have — I’ll tell you what I don’t like though — I’d love to have Mike Pompeo testify. But again, that’s a national security problem. But I’d love to have Mike Pompeo — but it’s a national security problem.
I’d love to have Rick Perry. Rick Perry has asked me, “I’d love to testify. Please, let me testify.” Because he knows this is all a hoax. He understands it better than most. And Rick Perry would love to testify. But we’re dealing with national security.
We’re dealing with one other thing: Our country has been tied up with this hoax from the day I came down the escalator. We’ve been fighting it. I’ve been fighting it from the day I’ve been elected. I would say probably long before — it could be long before I came down the escalator that — some people have said that, which is hard to believe.
Q I —
THE PRESIDENT: Wait. Wait, John.
It’s hard to believe. We’ve been fighting this. I would rather have — personally, I’d rather go the long route. It’s horrible for our country. Our country has to get back to business.
We have people that are corrupt, like Adam Schiff, who misquotes — I don’t mean “misquotes” — makes up a statement. He had no idea that I was going to release the transcript. He never thought I’d do that. And for that, I thank the President of Ukraine, because we got their approval. He had no idea I was going to do that.
But these are corrupt people, some of them. And some of them are just playing the political game. But if you look at the poll numbers, my poll numbers are the highest they’ve ever been. If you look at the funding numbers, if you look at what — the money raised by the Republican Party has just set a record. Nobody has ever done this before. It’s because of the impeachment hoax.
Q Sorry. Sorry. I’ve got three quick ones, too, Mr. President, if you don’t mind.
THE PRESIDENT: Three?
Q Three, yes. Well, my husband asked three; I ask three.
THE PRESIDENT: That means six.
Q No, that means —
THE PRESIDENT: Six for the family. (Laughter.)
Q — that — thank you very much. Thanks for appreciating the family.
THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead. No, go ahead.
Q Do you plan to show up in any way, shape, or form at your trial?
Number two, you called Kenneth Starr “a disaster” in the past. Do you still feel that way about him now?
And three, Lev Parnas has come forward and said that you knew everything that he was doing in Ukraine.
THE PRESIDENT: No, he’s a conman. Okay, you ready? Let me answer that one first.
Q Okay, so would you say that’s not true?
THE PRESIDENT: I don’t know him —
Q Okay, you don’t know him.
THE PRESIDENT: — other than he’s sort of like a groupie. He shows up at fundraisers. Okay? So I don’t know anything about him.
I watched Rudy. Rudy is a terrific person — great crime fighter; the best mayor in the history of New York City, by far; solved the crime problem in New York. And I think it’s very unfair the way the media has treated Rudy Giuliani.
I will say this: Parnas I don’t know — other than he probably contributed to the campaign, along with tens of thousands of other people. And I take — or, I mean, I was — this weekend I was taking pictures with hundreds of people. And they — they’re — they contribute to the Republican Party. And I stand there, and I take pictures. And every once in a while, I’ll look at somebody — I say, “Gee, I wonder when that picture is going to be in the New York Times or the Washington Post or on Fox.” You know, so it’s one of those things.
Q So, you mentioned Rudy. You still have great things —
THE PRESIDENT: I think Rudy is a high-quality person.
Q So why is he not on your legal team? Why is he not — I mean, Sekulow and Cipollone —
THE PRESIDENT: Because I don’t want there to be a conflict. I’d love to have Rudy on my team. But, you know, he could be a witness at some point, if this whole sham continues. I would love to have Rudy on the team. He — Rudy is on my team, just so you understand. But I’d love to have him up there. But it could be that he’d have a conflict. It could be.
But Rudy Giuliani is somebody that I think the press has been very unfair to. Greatest mayor in the history of New York — think of it. And one of the greatest crime fighters of the last 100 years. And he hates to see what’s happening because he knows corruption, really, better than anybody.
Okay, go ahead.
Q And Kenneth Starr. How do you feel about him now?
THE PRESIDENT: So Ken Starr is a terrific man. I did make that statement, because, frankly, I didn’t think that Bill Clinton should have been impeached. And I thought it was terrible. I didn’t know Ken Starr, but I didn’t think that Bill Clinton should be impeached — should have been impeached. And I was pretty vocal about that.
I didn’t know Ken, but what I did know is he was very smart. He was very tough. He was very talented. But in a certain way, I was sticking up for Clinton — for Bill Clinton. And, you know, I felt — I sort of still feel that way. I mean, what he did was nothing good. There was a lot of lying going on. There were a lot of things — a lot of bad things.
Now, with me, there’s no lying. There’s no nothing. They have nothing. They don’t even have a crime. They say, “This is the only one that’s ever been impeached, and he didn’t commit a crime.” I didn’t commit a crime. And then you get into high crimes and misdemeanors. But I didn’t commit a crime.
So, no, I have great respect for Ken. But I didn’t think, frankly, that Bill Clinton should have been impeached.
Q So what do you think? Will you show up at your trial any day, in any way, shape, or form?
THE PRESIDENT: I’d love to go. Wouldn’t that be great? Wouldn’t that be beautiful?
Q So why don’t you go?
THE PRESIDENT: I don’t know. I’d sort of love — sit right in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces. I’d love to do it.
Q So why not commit to going?
THE PRESIDENT: I don’t know. Don’t — don’t keep talking, because I may — you may convince me to do it.
Q Do you think Cipollone and Sekulow would want you there?
THE PRESIDENT: I think they might have a problem. I think they might. And, by the way, I think — I think they’ve all — I think they’ve done a really good job. And I think the other side has so lied. I watched the lies from Adam Schiff. He’ll stand, he’ll look at a microphone, and he’ll talk like he so aggrieved. These two guys — these are major sleazebags. They’re very dishonest people. Very, very dishonest people.
When somebody will make up a statement that I made, when — you remember the statement. Eight times. “Quid pro quo.” Eight times. Think of it. How can you say — eight times? That would mean I was asking somebody eight different times for the same thing? What kind of a conversation would that be? If you asked once, that’d be fine. If you has twice, that would have been — how can you ask eight times? They would say you’re a Looney Tune, right?
And then he said — I think he finished by saying, “Don’t call me. I’ll call you.” That I said that. He made that statement: “Don’t call me. I’ll call you.” And he didn’t say he made it up.
Now, ultimately, he had to, in a sense, apologize. He can hardly apologize. But he had to apologize because, fortunately, we had a tape. We had the transcripts. I am so happy that I had the transcripts, because it showed he’s a liar, and he’s a fraud. And they continue to just go on and on.
But this has happened to me with the Russian hoax. This has happened to me — I called it the “witch hunt.” Greatest witch hunt in American history. And the Mueller report, which exonerated, totally — there was no collusion after all that. Two years, there was no collusion.
And then what happened? Jill Stein from the Green Party gets called a “Russian agent” by Crooked Hillary. And then Tulsi Gabbard — I don’t know either of them, but I know they’re not Russian agents — gets called a “Russian agent.”
This is what these people do; they demean. And the press plays in because the press, largely, is their partner. And, you know, one thing — if we could straighten out the press in our country, we would have a place that would be so incredible. The pre- — the press is so dishonest, so corrupt. I read it all the time — the stories. I don’t mind bad stories when — I deserve bad story sometimes.
But when I do something great or good, let it be written about good. Same thing with other people. The corruption in the media — as I call it, the “fake news media” — is unbelievable. And, hopefully, everybody is going to sort of learn a lesson.
People got Pulitzer Prizes for their coverage of me. And it turned out they were totally wrong. Other people — Sean Hannity, Rushbo — a lot of great people, a lot of great writers. They got it right. They didn’t get Pulitzer Prizes, but they got it right.
The Russian hoax was a terrible thing. The dossier was a phony deal paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, and used in the FISA courts, totally illegally. No, it’s a terrible thing that happened.
This was a takedown attempt at a sitting President of the United States, and we caught them. So let’s see what happens.
Q Mr. President, but would you consider delaying the State of the Union if the impeachment trial has not ended by February 4th?
THE PRESIDENT: I don’t see it. No, I don’t see it. No, I’m — you know, a very excellent writer, Bob Woodward — I guess he’s doing another book on Trump, but, this time, I’ll actually give him an interview. He said, “You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?” I said, “No, I’m not enjoying it.” He said, “No, you act like you’re winning and you won. You’re actually enjoying it.” I said, “I’m not enjoying it. I’m doing it because it’s very important, what I’m doing.”
I consider what I’ve done here, with this whole witch hunt, from day one — with the insurance policy; with the horrible statements made between Strzok and Page; and McCabe; and Comey, who lied to Congress and did so many other bad things. He lied and he leaked.
When I finish, I think that this is going to go down as one of the greatest things I’ve done for our country. These are bad, corrupt people. These are bad people, and very bad for our country.
Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much.
————————————————————
**
END 1:17 P.M. CET
Daughn, just when I thought you couldn’t top yesterday’s blueberry muffins 😁🤓🥰🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Setting aside the criminal element of all that’s been stolen from us or given away by our crooked leaders in the last xx decades, what strikes me is the parallel between the globalist elites and the millenials. They both are entitled, spoiled brats and WE (the USA or parents) spoiled them!
Along comes POTUS and tells EVERYBODY who’s been on the gravy train, time’s up. You gotta go to work. Whether you’re the head of the EU or the 30-year-old pajama boy in Mom’s basement, YOUR welfare just ended. Buck up and start carrying your own load.
And, yes, that means you might have to work weekends! (see current headlines on the horror of that)
Changing the culture on that is not going to be easy. Really, Sunday should be about rest, and the number of sports leagues that are rolling on Saturdays pretty much drives stuff around here.
Well, I’m sure the hospital staffs, firemen, police, emergency roadside service, gas station attendants, etc. would love every Sunday off, too. Obviously, a day of rest can be any day of the week just as we can celebrate special occasions and holidays whenever it suits our needs. IMO, we get a little too hung up on arbitrarily assign days and dates.
All of my husband’s BILs were in the high end restaurant business their entire careers and never had a regular holiday off on “The Day” …and their day of rest was probably a Monday or Tuesday; but they and their families survived (and the tips on those holidays were excellent!)
There’s a reason why musicians are off on Mondays.
There are always exceptions.
Yep. It’s not about money; it’s about GOD.
Sunday is not arbitrarily assigned. And, for emergency personnel, there needs to be another day of rest, of course.
DP, gunshops too.
Most closed Sun/Mon.
Theaters are dark as well. So are a lot of restaurants. It’s the workers in the leisure industry that take Monday after working all weekend in addition to those in critical care and first responder capacities.
If I told you the number of times I’ve been to Mass on a weekend and police and fire have been there in uniform, and medical people were in scrubs. When the butt of a gun hits a wood pew, it’s LOUD.
DP, so good to know!
Thanks, Daughn – have been taking a bit of a break from all the news lately but yours was definitely welcome and entertaining, as usual. Love ya!
Big hugs your way, OW!!!!
GOOD to see you.
Did we make a deal on Greenland yet? 😉
I swear to the Lord above, with Michael as my wing-man, or me as his, with the mood we are in, we could close by Friday on Greenland!
And pay in pallets of cash 😁😁😁
Flag up – SALUTE!!!
http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/547389466da811993a55a384-1200-600/thule-air-base-9.jpg
No Ruskies getting past!!!
Thule Air Base – at the top of the world…almost
http://elderaviator.blogspot.com/2014/11/thule-air-base-at-top-of-worldalmost_2.html
DUDE – I’ve got the BLUEBERRY MUFFIN BAZOOKA featuring DWX-247 WARHEAD and we are TAKING GREENLAND one way or another!
http://www.joeaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DSC03315.jpg
That’s supposed to be a 17 on my uniform – a simple off-by-3 error – probably THE POPE back in logistics.
Yeah exactly. What, the Danes gunna fight back??
ROFLOL!!!
Biggest mistake we made in territorial history was not grabbing Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Instead we got stuck with Puerto Rico. Just look what’s happened to both places.
Of course, we also conquered Mexico before giving it back, some might argue that was a mistake… I’m not so sure. At one point Mexico even offered to sell Baja to US and Congress said no thanks we have quite enough land already…
Ok I’m going to sleep before I say something truly ridiculous and get in trouble…
WHUT, THIS IS THE U TREE, DUDE!!! AIN’T NO TRUBS HERE! 😉
Ummmmmm……it’s the qtree.
Shhhhhh. Ain’t nobody need ta know dat! 😉
OMGosh, Wolfie, I can’t believe you found this guy. He needs to be our action figure for QTree.
Shades of “Josh And The Big Wall” (Veggie Tales) 🙂
Daughn I love it!
You know, you could inflate the number of Davos posts by posting a new post
FOR
EVERY
SINGLE
BILAT
VIDEO…
Or not…
BWHAWHAWHA… 😉
You have the best sauce anywhere to make the best blueberry muffins!
All those journalists and globalists only have the warm tears they shed into their cups to drink!!!
Awww…. so sad… no blueberry muffins for them…
Also just wanted to let you know too…
I’m still standing over here waiting for the global elites to grovel and kiss my feet.
If they don’t they’re getting tariffs 😉 Great big beautiful tariffs.
Dibs on the one on the upper right! Dang, the baker wasn’t stingy with the berries…they look so good!
Awesome recap and look forward. OMG – I cannot believe how much Trump gets done at these things.
He just swatted the climate change BS like a FLY. The entire DISTRACTO theme of the party – he just swatted it away. Amazing.
War? He just swats it away. “Kashmir? Let’s have a look.”
All I want DJT to do is tell each of those billionaire punk tech owners that they either take off ALL the censorship algos or else he’ll tell EU to have at ’em. And they have a week to git ‘er done!
https://twitter.com/Scavino45/status/1219892132749762560?s=20
This is cool 😎. Day one in pictures. There’s a really good one of him at the table with FIFA.
Great post! I’ll be leaving my hotel in a little bit to make another pass at Davos ….. see what I can see.
Very cool!!!
Glad you found a hotel KSwiss, put my head on a pillow last night wondering if you found a place to stay.
Yes thanks so much – sorry to make you worry in the least bit. I found a place forty min south!
https://twitter.com/ElmaAksalic/status/1219871032028188678?s=20
And that ‘let’s make a deal’ image – that is exactly what I thought when PDJT stated ‘let’s make a deal’ ….
At the train station in Zernez, just met an American businessman (originally from Milwaukee) who is a board member of a US business school going there to various lunches and dinners to network at the conference and to be part of a discussion group (not on a panel).
Should I have an elevator pitch? When people ask why I’m going to Davos they are impressed/surprised that I’m going ‘just to go’ (I just have a small purse with bare necessities and it looks like a purse, and they don’t know how to assess clues about me because I purposely keep it upscale casual.)
American business man lives In Zürich (for the last 25 years) and does ‘investment transactions’ and has 10 people all over the world working for him. Wife just retired from heading up marking for a major Suisse insurance company.
So interesting. Half way to Davos – due to arrive 11:51 Suisse time
Had the most interesting conversation on the train ride- American Businessman ran into another conference attendee and we all discussed:
– investments being made into Africa
– ABman company asked to be a part of a project to Botswana (if memory serves me) to build them an e-government (make them digital)
– met up with man from Belgium who was also remarking about investments made in Africa. The battle for Africa between EU and China.
– ABman had a group dinner and the ‘new Greta (American 14yr old from California Alexandria (?) ) was there and he was impressed. (She is the new teenage warrior on the scene- the teen opinion on climate change is a big theme this conference) – everyone is impressed with her focus and desire to quit school after the fires in Muir Woods where her parents have/had? A home
– then a skier (American visiting his local friend through Jan 31) a geologist in ‘space mining’ joined the convo
– space mining is huge, a meteor contains more materials than current minding- capturing one would be huge (Enter in dropping Elon musk/Jeff bezos and their current drive into space. Will be mining/active on the moon by 2024) –
-Elon et all may master the harnessing of materials in space but Russia with their military and economy that is based in metals/petrol chemicals are going to essentially be the space pirates out there.
– current ‘space laws’ are antiquated and Space is going to be a bunch of ‘cowboy frontier’ until it’s locked down
– geologist skier wrote a thesis in ‘Loop holes of space laws leading to destruction’
That’s one heck of a ground report.
Thanks Daughn – I had to retain the eye connection – then later glance aside and make notes on my phone … glad I did- my memory is like sand through my hands sometimes …. lol
You’re moving and shaking today!
Oh and in my helping to keep ABman intime with thre train transfers to Davos (we were on the same three train route with quick transfers and he was emailing etc) I left my hat on the train. Lol
But – I asked him and he gave me advice on how to set my design freelance business up in Switzerland vs the US and a connection to a new Suisse Tax Advisor. So the price of a hat is ok.
Plus i now have his business card 😉
Hat left on the train? Please tell me your MAGA hat is either in the hotel or still safe with you? LOL… 😉
Oh yes my MAGA hat was always treated with reverence and tucked safely in my bag. It was my favorite winter hat with a fur Pom Pom…. I’ll get over it, and will inquire with the Swiss Train lost and found first on the off chance.
Trump is banging the crap out of what is left of the WTO
OMG – he has focused his IRE on the WTO.
If China is a developing nation, then so is the USA.
China would not be China without that status.
“Roberto” is in big trouble. Trump is pulling him to the podium and Roberto is coming to Washington to take his medicine. Ohhhhhhhhh crap.
(((Do you have any idea how many beers I have pounded complaining about the WTO??????????)))
BWHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaa
Roberto comes to the microphone and insists the WTO has to be updated to function in today’s global economy.
Roberto is nervous……..
I am serious about it
We are committed to doing it
This is serious
We all have to be on the path together
I’m going to be talking to President Trump to see what he thinks about it ((((( I have to get my instructions from DADDY
He is bowing and scraping to the US President.
Knock me over with a feather. Never thought we would see the day.
We finally have a president willing to take on the WTO and the reality that it was probably set up to be yet another conduit to drain American money out of the country. Roberto better bow and scrape. His tush may well be on the line if VSG manages to neutralize the WTO.
Total capitulation from the WTO.
Yeah, we need more capitulation.
NBC chick is banging on Trump about impeachment, “Do you think abuse of power is an impeachable offense”
What a loaded statement.
In his answer PDJT focused on the transcript, and the perfect call.
PDJT brought the convo back to why isn’t Germany paying for Ukraine, or France.
Now the American press is trying to “correct” the President who reported no injuries in Iraq, when we had 11 guys who had possible concussions.
“YOu don’t consider severe brain trauma a serious injury?”
President, no a few of them had headaches, needed to get checked out, not serious, not as serious as other injuries I’ve seen compared to lost limbs.
presstitutes want a war ssssssssoooooooooooo bad…
President foreshadowing the trade deal with EU
They are tougher than China, and the negotiations with China became testy, much more so than reported.
But the EU is tougher and he wanted to finish China before he started the EU.
Obama wanted to do a deal with the EU but they would not talk to him. Bush tried and the EU said NO, we like it the way it is, well of course they liked it the way it was, they gain 150 billion a year.
So, they are talking to me and we will have a deal.
Trump implies — he has a date in mind.
John gets up from FOX
Nadler – he’s known him a long time…..
Trump says he would rather go the long way.
Bolton the problem is it’s National Security
He knows my thoughts about national leaders, some of them not very good, what if he reveals what I think about them and I have to deal with the ramifications as the President of the USA.
He knows about massive trade deals, war, big issues.
The problem is national security and the precedent it would set up for the next President.
Our country has been tied up with this hoax since the day I came down the escalator.
Personally, I would rather go the long way but it is horrible for the country
We have to get back to business
These are corrupt people, some of them.
Some of them do it just for political end.
Trump also talked about Pompeo, but the same problem, it’s National Security.
Trump talked about Rick Perry, who said please, let me testify, I can defend you – same problem, national security.
Lev Parnas, conman, like a groupie who shows up at fundraisers.
He contributed to the campaign, along with tens of thousands of others.
I take pics with hundreds.
Trump speaks VERY highly of Rudy Giuliani, he may be conflicted in this case – firmly says Rudy is on his team. He might be a witness.
A groupie who shows up at fundraisers….
Ha ha ha ha ha. That remark resembles a number of people I ran into in my non-profit lives.
OMGosh, the left is going to explode.
Trump defended Bill Clinton, didn’t think he should be impeached. Talks about what Bill Clinton did, it was bad, but should not have been impeached.
President is joking but is thinking about testifying, more of a “be careful what you ask for”
Talking about Schiff, a liar and a fraud.
Russia hoax.
Mueller
Jill Stein was called a Russian agent by Hillary
Tulsi Gabbard was called a Russian agent.
The press plays along
Blames the press.
I don’t mind bad strories by the press. Sometimes I deserve it.
If we could straighten out the press in our country we could do incredible things.
People won Pulitzers for reporting on me, which was all wrong.
Others, Sean Rush Limbaugh didn’t win.
It was a take down )deep state)
and we caught them.
This is the President at his most revealing.
He talked about Comey, lying to congress.
He considers what he has done here, with the witch hunt
and says it will be one of the most important things he has ever done (referring to catching them) and mentioning the insurance policy again.
That’s important and foreshadows Justice coming, IMO.
One of the best pressers he has ever given but completely different than other pressers.
He was quiet, sincere, and extremely revealing about his personal thoughts.
The big news was about the WTO – which is amazing news, don’t get me wrong.
But he was deeply personal this time, talking about the past few years, what the country has been through, and what he sees.
We’re going to need the transcript for that one.
Thanks for the Readers Digest version to start out the day!
All my waiting paid off – near the hotel where the conference is I waited as I saw the police all line the streets, the rooftop snipers get into position and the helicopter way overhead. I got to see (and take a video of PDJTs convoy leaving!)
Quite an impressive convoy too! Even those that don’t like home lined the street to see him (they couldn’t get through the street anyways lol)
A Brit that was in the crowd was amazed by the snipers (what do you think is used to protect??) and as the delay went on his worrying made him state ‘oh something must’ve happened’
Imagine living in a state of anxiety like that where it is so deep that in two minutes you go to worst case scenario ?! (Product of a God-less society ? But I digress.)
There definitely was an energy there.
And now I’m going to begin my five hour ride home. On the train it seems like a half hour- the Swiss hade the rail system down pat and I enjoy it!
Also I need to go look for a replacement hat! Maybe I’ll buy a few postcards and mail them out though!
Hope you enjoyed my microscopic vantage point. Happy to post it to you all- it was exhilarating and fun for me!!
Ps I was able to post on my LinkedIn with a photo of me attended this with a photo- and linked it to my old work place as a Trumpian- ‘how DO you do?’ on their shortsightedness on not to transfer my US role into Switzerland…. where we have an office. 🙄 But I was called to do bigger and better.
This is MA_Kswiss reporting from Davos at the 50th World Economic Forum. Back to you in the studio WQTreepers!
She’s hired!
MA_kswiss – Special Correspondent – WQTH European Desk!
Lol!! Sign me up!
Wonderful reporting! Thank you! Glad you had a good time
Thank you kea!
Spectacular MA_Kswiss 😍😆💖 What a thrill you gave us with your sneak peeks and conversations.
Thanks Alison! Glad you read them 😄
Wonderful fun posts. Great insights shared. Thank you!
Thanks kalbokalbs!
Aw man, look how POTUS loves my Gov❣️
My allergies are bothering me, sniff. 😍
Sweet moment between strong men.
Ya’ have to admit, American power is impressive.
Amen!
President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of Kurdistan
Valuable video clip and much more inclusive.
Here, beginning at 40:30, we have President Trump’s entry into the main foyer, the Swiss guys singing (very nicely), and the introduction to President Trump, followed by his speech.
The body language of those around the President is telling.
President Trump Holds a Press Conference
Thank you, Duchess. I put this one at the top.
Sorry – flying through this AM – in between work – sorry – did not mean to mess up – 🙁
He’s on his way home now. Posted schedule on the News Roundup – looking for your thoughts on the success of this mission.
The big man with the long black coat.
Wonder how long the photographer was in this position to catch a one minute video glimpse.
LOOK at all the helos…….. wow.
Big old snow blowers!!!
iirc, first news wrt his schedule relayed he would be back in D.C. Thurs am ET
as usual, POTUS is under budget and ahead of schedule 😉
Question : so the Swiss papers are reporting that PDJT drove all the way back to Zürich (no small feat) due to fog (which I can see from my trainsest as I travel to Zürich ).
Sooner or later we will get the entire Maria Bartiromo interview with the President.
Until then, here is a clip.
https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6125493186001/?playlist_id=3166411554001#sp=show-clips
Here ya go:
*
I could kiss you PGroup!
Thank YOU!
And Daughn- I forgot to say… a heartfelt thanks for the mention in the article. Just happy to contribute ! Made me feel like a rockstar!!
We are so proud of you, MA_Kswiss.
It was a JOY to have you report to us, LIVE FROM DAVOS!
This (posting about Davos to the Qtree) has been a highlight of the year for me (already)
Pleasure is ours… so wonderful to have your ‘ground’ reports… thank you so much… You ROCK!
Thank you kindly Phoenix!
YOU are awesome. Thank you!!!!
Thanks so much Sylvia! Glad you liked it. Good to see you again!!!
Good to see you, too! So cool that you got to be there!!!
Thanks it was a spontaneous trip that I certainly do not take for granted. 🙂
MA_kswiss, you ARE a rockstar!
And don’t take that for granite 😉
Great that you could get to Davos, and great that your firsthand reports are here on the QTree! Interesting too that you were able to talk to the biz folks as well… were they tending towards favoring VSGPDJT (at least as a businessman and leader) or typical Euro Skeptics? (Euro septics?)…
I couldn’t quite tell if they didn’t favor him or were remaining silent. But the one American Businessman kept shaking chains on ‘climate changeeeeeee’ – so I was thinking NO for him.
But the Chilean group yesterday – I’m thinking they were in favor, if only for the fact that they wished to change the leadership of what’s happening in their country right now. It seemed that they were trying to get this oppressive rock off their chests that kept them held down for so long. In earnest they wanted to change it- and they were all aged 50+
Here’s a nice ending to POTUS at Davos. Listen carefully, he’s offering Gov. Abbott a ride home on Air Force 1 – Governor has to decline, staying several more days – deals to be made. 🙂
Ah………that was awesome! Thanks Lady P! Made me happy to see that…..
The 2 days of Davos are marvelous. I’m still catching up, some of it I skimmed earlier, but started going over it again this evening. (Been a little busy over the long weekend and into yesterday as well.) Lots of good input from so many people, yourself, Wolf, BKR, MA_kswiss and a lot of tidbits by so many others. KUDOS to everyone that contributed!!
Like jamcooker above, I’m just getting caught up. I’ve seen a lot of video, speeches, pressers, and that was terrific, but reading back here for the analysis puts the cherry on top. Thank you, daughn dearest, for another great thread.