"The nearly 90-minute speech, in which Trump lectured and hectored the tech executives and government officials in the audience, many from Europe, before clarifying that he didn't want to use force and ultimately wanted peace, could be summed up by Trump ribbing French President Emmanuel Macron, seemingly unaware of his eye injury. "I watched him yesterday with his beautiful sunglasses. I said, 'What the hell happened?'" Trump later added, "I actually like him. I do.""
"And while the president ruled out using military force to acquire the Danish territory of Greenland, he did not back down from antagonistic rhetoric while repeating his contested claim of having stopped eight wars around the world. ( Trump's desire for a Nobel Peace Prize, one measure of his competitiveness with predecessor Barack Obama, has hung on this eight-war figure, which some countries such as India and Pakistan reject.)"
Trump delivered a nearly 90-minute address in Davos that mixed bellicose rhetoric with conciliatory reassurances to European leaders and investors. He lectured tech executives and government officials, ribbed French President Emmanuel Macron about sunglasses, and emphasized a preference for peace while denying any intent to use military force over Greenland. He reiterated a contested claim of having stopped eight wars and connected public bombast to personal ambitions tied to a Nobel Peace Prize. He used the World Economic Forum platform to critique European nations and reaffirm U.S. global stance while seeking to temper trans-Atlantic tensions and market jitters.
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