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Trump in Davos, as Our Columnists See It
"Trump wants globalization to be a competition. He's sure the U.S. will win, and what's good for the U.S., he says, is good for the world."
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Many world leaders took the stage at the World Economic Forum's annual Davos gathering over the past week in an event that generated nearly a quarter of a million tweets. None attracted as much attention as U.S. President Donald Trump. As they waited for Trump to speak Friday morning, Bloomberg View columnists Leonid Bershidsky in Berlin and Ferdinando Giugliano in Davos and their editor in London, Therese Raphael, chatted electronically about how the global elite view Trump's first year. Here's a lightly edited transcript of their conversation.
Ferdinando Giugliano: One slight problem: My mobile only has 29 percent battery left.