Using words like “wild” and “bizarre”
The Times on Trump’s Davos Show:
Andrew here. I am in Davos, Switzerland, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. President Trump is expected to speak here on Wednesday.
The mood: trepidation, for those who are being honest. I attended several events last night, where some C.E.O.s openly questioned the president, using words like “wild” and “bizarre.” Yet many of them are planning to attend a reception in his honor, with some even joking about the best way to praise him in person. “Tread lightly,” one C.E.O. said. Contrast that with a number of international politicians wringing their hands over the growing tensions about Greenland.
Contrast what? It sounds to me like the same thing. They all recognize that Trump is a dangerous moron, and they react with both dismay and jokes.
Already, the U.S. delegation has made clear that it’s not particularly interested in the event’s longtime goal of improving the world through international cooperation and commerce.
President Trump said he would hold a meeting to discuss what many see as his increasingly bellicose efforts to take Greenland from Denmark — but has reiterated that he still wants the semiautonomous territory. And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent brushed aside potential European responses to Trump’s possible trade war over the island.
It’s easy to “brush them aside” when they haven’t happened yet.
Yes, many see it as increasingly bellicose. That’s because many see reality.
I realize newspapers are bound to impartiality, therefore leading to things like ‘many see’ and ‘allegedly’ even when it’s crystal clear. Still, it is misleading to suggest that there is another valid view.
Funny how they don’t do that with trans issues – a ‘transwoman’ isn’t ‘allegedly’ a woman, he is a ‘woman’ to them.
Iknklast, in both cases, newspapers are sanewashing absolutely bonkers, authoritarian, and often violent narcissists. The doubts are always applied to the views of others, especially women.