The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, resembles a pagan ritual in which wealthy, famous, and powerful people come together to worship themselves. It takes place in a secluded ski resort in the eastern Alps, so that “elites” can indulge themselves far away from the planet’s detestable riffraff (that’s you and me).
I’ve always thought that if extraterrestrial visitors from another galaxy or dimension were really here and truly interested in making planet Earth a better place, they could start by using their advanced technology to suck up the mountain of globalists in Davos, jettison the whole rock into deep space, and leave the rest of us to rebuild the world without them. That would be one annual meeting I would pay to see!
So far, aliens have yet to rid us of the globalist “elites.” On the other hand, President Trump just gave a speech that did give them a pretty good spanking. Feeling a disturbance in the globalist force and anticipating friction, anxiety, and self-medication among the attendees dreading the return of the American T-Rex to the world scene, WEF’s narrative-engineers chose to convene this year’s me-me-me-fest under the theme, “A Spirit of Dialogue.”
That was their subtle way of begging President Trump not to lampoon their naked emperors or roast their globalist master plans. Trump ignored the WEF-lords’ pleas to play nice. He called them idiots and wannabe-tyrants right to their faces. The uppity rulemakers wanted one-way respect and pretend dialogue; the American president gave them tongue-lashings and promises of future beatings instead.
Watching the president take on the world’s worst people is pretty hilarious. He gets off a helicopter, walks into their globalist temple with the swagger of a man ready to brawl, and just starts flipping off everyone in the place.
“The green new scam” is “the greatest hoax in history,” Trump told a packed room of globalist grifters who have been telling the same lies that their parents and grandparents have told for the last half-century — that the planet will be destroyed in the next few years unless the middle class pays more in taxes to the uber-elites who profit by micromanaging humanity and regulating the free market out of existence.
The president then accused the United Kingdom of betraying its own citizens by buying expensive windmills from China and forcing everyone to pay more for electricity. “I haven’t seen a single wind farm in China,” Trump noted before pointing out how Chinese communists have outsmarted the U.K.: “They make a fortune selling windmills. Stupid people buy them.” Somewhere in not-so-Great Britain, a gaggle of green-energy-worshiping aristocrats dropped their teacups while making the same how-dare-he? face.
In between descriptions of snatching Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in his underwear and castrating Iran’s Islamic tyrants with big, beautiful bombs, President Trump explained how silly it is for the Kingdom of Denmark and the unelected feudal lords of the European Commission to pretend that Greenland “belongs” to the Danes and Euro-villains.
Reminding the Eurocentric audience that Greenland is part of North America and in the Western Hemisphere, T-Rex roared, “That’s our territory.” Arguing that Denmark had failed to defend Greenland during WWII, failed to defend it for the last eighty years, and done nothing to develop the territory, President Trump offered a refresher course in the Monroe Doctrine: “It has been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside interests from entering our hemispheres.”
The American president then reminded members of NATO that the United States armed forces have protected them all for many decades and that Greenland (an island the U.S. already singlehandedly defends) is a small price to pay for that protection. With a tilt of his head and a serious stare, Trump summed up the Greenland issue efficiently: “You can say ‘yes’ and we will be very appreciative, or you can say ‘no’ and we will remember.”
Taking a shot at Canadian prime minister Mark Carney (who recently cuddled up to communist China while promising to militarily defend Greenland from American annexation), the president reminded the globalist central banker running things up north that Canada depends entirely upon American military muscle: “Canada lives because of the United States.” If there are any Vikings left in Denmark or Canada, Trump took their hammers and slapped them silly during his speech.
President Trump went on for about ninety minutes — about twice as long as expected. During that time, he beat up on everybody. While speaking in Switzerland, he lambasted the Swiss for profiting from one-sided trade deals with the United States. He called Federal Reserve chair Jerome “Too Late” Powell a moron.
He accused central bankers and the CEOs of multinational corporations of stealing wealth from middle-class families. He made the point that inflation is not economic growth; it’s just a scheme for the wealthy to take from the poor. He made fun of little Mark Carney, self-important Emmanuel Macron, and even the Patrick Bateman-looking Gavin Newsom. He called 2020 a “rigged election.” He talked about blowing up Somali pirates and narcoterrorists at sea and wanting to throw criminal illegal aliens out of the United States. He discussed a bit of his vision for the Board of Peace and threatened to annihilate Hamas if the terrorists choose war. And President Trump forcefully defended Western civilization from the globalists: “The West cannot mass import foreign cultures that have never been successful.”
Trump hit this last point over and over while asking Europe what the hell it was doing by destroying its own culture with mass migration and misguided devotion to a suicidal fantasy that “diversity” somehow constitutes national strength. The president looked as if he wanted to shake the Europeans by their neckties and repeatedly asked them, are you not Westerners?
“Multiculturalists” are not capable of defending the shared civilization of Europe and North America, Trump assured them. Only Westerners can defend the West, because those who wish to turn the West into something else cannot be trusted. That, in a nutshell, was a running theme of Trump’s speech.
Amusingly, after brutally mocking the political, cultural, and economic shibboleths that globalist “elites” hold dear, President Trump took the opportunity to thank Secretary of State Marco Rubio for “teaching” him how to be “diplomatic.”
It was a funny moment in which the president managed to praise Rubio and poke fun at himself. The American delegation at WEF is working as a well-oiled machine. Trump owned the room. It wouldn’t have been surprising to hear him say that he had plans to buy the ski resort and rename the Swiss luxury hamlet “Trumptown.” He did make sure to end on an exclamatory note: “The United States is back — bigger, stronger, and better than ever before.”
At the end, the WEFers looked as if Trump had stolen their lunch money. Globalism, Inc. just doesn’t work as well when the American president calls the Davos “elites” fools and scam-artists to their faces. In the “spirit of dialogue,” Trump shattered their spirits.
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