The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Trump in Davos edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance Meets of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon joined by Anna Schimmansky and Jordan Weisman and

and in Davos, Switzerland, or Davos, I guess we should call it this week, we have Jacob Weisberg.

Hello Felix, low money people.

You are right there in the in the thick of it all this is the the year that

Davos which has always been this conference which was like full of wonky economists and finance

ministers and high-minded talk about the state of the world just completely got

obliterated first by us Noerstorm and then by Donald Trump.

He kind of took over every conversation, right?

Yeah, it was clearly the only headline that was going to come out of Dallas this year

was about whatever Trump said and in

that sense it was it was very shrewd you know that everyone assumed that the

Davos represented a good part of what Trump and Trump's constituency is hostile to, i.e.

globalization, but in the with Steve Bannon gone, there was nothing preventing him from

coming here and he sold his message pretty

effectively. I mean he gave a very conciliatory speech without a lot of

substance but he conciliatory speech without a lot of substance.

But he, you know, he, I think the story is,

it's going to be largely a positive one about his visit.

And in fairness, Davos probably is a kind of

civilizing influence on Donald Trump. It's probably a good thing for him to come

here, speak to some other world leaders, behave like a like a normal human being to some extent.

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