Good day. It's Friday, January the 24th, 2025. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by our senior editor for theology, Dr. Ryan Denison.

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump appeared via video conference in front of a packed

crowd at the World Economic Forum, the W.E.F. in Davos, Switzerland.

Trump's statements leading up to his inauguration and in the days that followed were the talk

of the conference, despite that he was unable to attend in person.

So when given the chance to hear from him directly,

the audience of diplomats, human rights advocates, academics,

and business leaders from around the globe were eager to hear what he had to say.

Among the points he most emphasized were,

the promise that companies who choose to make their products

in America will pay among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth, while those who don't

should expect to pay a premium in tariffs. He made it clear that America's allies would not

necessarily be exempt from any such premiums. His belief that, quote, after four long years,

the United States is strong and sovereign and a beautiful nation once again, it's a strong, sovereign

nation. And the need for the war in Ukraine to end and end quickly, Trump brought up Ukraine on

several occasions and in a variety of contexts.

But the thread that tied each mentioned together was his belief that the cost in human lives,

which he claimed was much higher on both sides than has been reported, was too great to allow the

conflict to continue any longer. And his belief that America was being taken

advantage of by both its allies and other nations around the world, an imbalance he promised to

correct through tariffs and other means. Much of Trump's speech touched on familiar grounds to

anyone who listened to his inaugural address or the interviews that followed.

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