![]() "The environment will play a particularly important role during this meeting." "I think both voices are necessary," said WEF founder Klaus Schwab of Trump and Thunberg. Trump mocked the Swedish teenager after she was named Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year. Trump is a climate change skeptic but will share top billing at the conference with environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who will open a debate on avoiding a "climate apocalypse" two hours after the U.S. Hundreds of protesters, some wearing koala bear costumes to highlight the devastating bushfires in Australia, and who want the global leaders at the forum to be more aggressive concerning climate change, headed to Davos via a hiking trail and a train after authorities banned foot traffic into the Alpine town.Ĭlimate and other environmental threats rank ahead of geopolitical worries and cyber attacks in an annual risks survey published last week by the World Economic Forum. The 3,000 participants at the invitation-only annual event will be outnumbered by nearly 5,000 military personnel and police.Ī man dressed as a clown is part of hundreds of climate protesters who are on a three-day protest march from Landquart to Davos, Switzerland, Jan. On Trump's agenda, according to the White House, are talks with Iraqi President Barham Salih, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Swiss Confederation President Simonetta Sommaruga and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as well as the president of the Kurdistan regional government, Nechirvan Barzani. On arrival at the Zurich International Airport disembarking Air Force One and again after landing on Marine One at Davos, Trump did not respond to shouted questions from VOA as to whether he would address climate change during his speech and meetings here.īetween his Tuesday morning address and returning to Washington Wednesday afternoon, Trump is to meet on the sidelines of the conference separately with several other world leaders. President Donald Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, where he is due to give a speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum. Pat Toomey (R-PA) agreed it wasn’t a “terribly good idea.With his impeachment trial in the Senate about to go into high gear, U.S. I just don't think it's a good idea,” while Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) said Tuesday, “Early assumptions are that it's going to be an aggressive statement. Trump’s planned press conference was denounced by several Republicans in Congress. Trump continued to advance his false assertions about the 2020 election in the Tuesday statement : “Also, why is the primary reason for the people coming to Washington D.C., which is the fraud of the 2020 Presidential Election, not the primary topic of the Unselect Committee’s investigation? This was, indeed, the Crime of the Century.” Chief Critic Trump has also referred to the rioters as “great people” and voiced his support for Ashli Babbitt, a rioter who was fatally shot by police while inside the Capitol. ![]() ![]() Liz Cheney (Wy.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.). A request from the committee to view Trump Administration documents awaits a Supreme Court ruling after Trump sued to block their release, and Trump has often derided the group as the “Unselect Committee” and questioned the intentions of the two Republicans on the panel, Reps. Trump has consistently downplayed the Capitol riot and criticized the House committee’s investigation into the attack over the last year, claiming the root cause of the insurrection was to protest a “rigged” election. ![]()
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