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Trump Trolls Davos: “Make your products in America or pay tariffs.”
“Build Back Better” failed. “America First” is in charge now.
“Trump Tells Davos: Make Your Product in America — or Pay Tariffs,” reported Alexander Ward for the Wall Street Journal this afternoon, adding that the “President suggests lowering oil price to pressure Russia over Ukraine.”
The news was soon being shouted from the rooftops. But not everyone was happy about it.
“For days in this snowy ski town, allied officials were bewildered at Trump’s continuous threats to impose tariffs on friendly nations, seize other countries’ territories, and force Ukraine into peace talks with Russia,” explained Ward. “Some of America’s closest counterparts in the Swiss Alps repeatedly expressed their hopes for freer trade and stronger pushback against Putin, not so subtly rebuking Trump’s opening foreign-policy gambits.”
“But there was also a realization that Trump is stronger at home and abroad than he was at the start of his first term, making it likely that he will find more success in his pursuit of an unvarnished ‘America First’ agenda,” he added.
“Trump issues Davos elites a blunt warning: Invest in US or face tariffs,” echoed the AP.