Trump's Critique of Globalization at Davos

Okay.

Okay. We are in Davos at the World Economic

Forum,

and the Trump administration and myself, we are here to make

a very clear point.

Globalization has failed the

West and the United States of America.

It's a failed policy. It is what the WEF has stood for, which

is export, offshore,

far shore, find the cheapest labor in the world,

and the

world is a better place for it. The fact is, it has left

America behind. It has left the American workers behind.

And what we are here to say is that America first is a

different model, one that we encourage other

countries to consider, which is that our workers

come first.

We can have policies that impact

our workers. Sovereignty is your borders.

You're entitled to have borders. You shouldn't offshore your medicine.

You shouldn't offshore your semiconductors.

You shouldn't offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed

out beneath you. You should not be dependent for that

which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other

nation. And if you're going to be dependent on

someone, it darn well better

be your best allies, okay? And so that

is a different way of thinking. It is

completely different than the WEF.

I viewed the WEF as not a flagpole in the middle,

but in fact, they are the flag. Whichever way the wind

blew, so it blew. You should have solar. You should have wind.

Why are you going to do solar and wind?

Why would Europe agree to be net

zero in twenty thirty when they don't make a

battery? They don't make a battery.

So if they go twenty thirty, they are deciding to be

subservient to China who makes the batteries.