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PBS News Hour - Segments

Trump lays out demands in virtual reintroduction to world stage

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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President Trump took his first major foray on the world stage with a virtual speech with business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Lisa Desjardins reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Welcome to the NewsHour. President Trump made his first major foray of the second administration on the world stage today,

0:07.8

delivering a virtual speech and taking questions from business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

0:14.0

The president hit many of the same themes as in his inauguration address on Monday. Before an audience comprised of world leaders and top business

0:22.0

people, he railed against the European Union, again threatened to levy major tariffs on

0:27.3

adversaries and allies alike, ruminated on global energy markets and spoke of his hopes to

0:32.8

end the war in Ukraine, which will enter its fourth year next month. Lisa Desjardin starts our coverage.

0:39.9

The president of the United States.

0:42.8

At the Davos World Economic Forum, President Trump's virtual reintroduction on the world stage.

0:48.8

Come make your product in America, and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth.

0:55.4

The president had clear instructions for other world leaders.

0:59.0

If you don't make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then very simply

1:04.4

you will have to pay a tariff, differing amounts, but a tariff.

1:09.0

And a list of demands.

1:10.2

Saudi Arabia will be investing at least $600 billion in America, but I'll be asking the

1:16.2

Crown Prince, who's a fantastic guy, to round it out to around $1 trillion.

1:20.9

More money, lower prices.

1:22.7

And I'm also going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil. And a higher spending bar for NATO countries. I'm not going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil.

1:28.0

And a higher spending bar for NATO countries.

1:31.5

I'm also going to ask all NATO nations to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP, which is what it should have been years ago.

1:39.9

While at home on the Resolute Desk, a new batch of freshly signed executive orders, among them

1:46.3

declassifying files on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin

1:52.2

Luther King Jr. Mr. Trump also signed pardons for 23 anti-abortion activists and created

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