Trump shakes up globalists at Davos summit — instilling fear and relief while showing Sleepy Joe's no longer at the wheel

DAVOS, Switzerland For the unacquainted, Davos is the home of the World Economic Forum, and hosts a yearly confab of the global elite. The stars are the chiefs of globalist institutions like the IMF, the UN, progressive prime ministers and all the big banks.

This year was different. The headliner was a real estate developer from Queens.

Who also happens to be president of the United States.

He wasnt here in person, but Donald Trump dominated every conversation and not always in a bad way, even given his America First agenda, and his penchant for not caring what the IMF, the UN or the people at the WEF think.

In some ways, the globalist crowd is scared to death of The Donald, and for good reasons. Joe Biden was sleepy but predictably globalist. They recall Trumps first unconventional term as president. In the early days of Trump II, he has already issued an executive order halting foreign aid for the next 90 days. He is ending all the globalist shibboleths of environmental social governance the corporate embrace of zero carbon future and wokeism.

He wants to drill, baby, drill and what lefty globalist wants that?

In other ways, however, theyre also relieved. Unlike Biden, an actual, sentient human being is now the leader of the free world. They owe their protection to a man who doesnt sleep all day; no one here really wants a future of speaking Chinese or Russian.

Trump was beamed in Thursday to address the crowd and he gave a very Trumpy speech reminding big banks like JPMorgan there will be penalties for going woke in his words, debanking conservatives. He said diversity, equity and inclusion mandates a form of racial and gender equalization that used to be big with the Davos crowd is the way of the past.

The reaction was pretty positive, or at least not hostile. Ditto for Trump’s social media tweet warning Vladimir Putin he’d better get to the table and negotiate a real peace in the years-long conflict with Ukraine.

The globalists used to believe Trump had a man crush on the Russian strongman, and thought he was about to sell out Ukraine to appease old Vlad.

Thats not the tenor of conversations as the forum draws to a close. What theyre learning is that Trump is friends with someone until hes not. And that goes for Vladimir Putin.

Trump sees WWIII as not being in US interests (for obvious reasons), and if Putin doesnt play ball, Trump will make whatever sanctions were imposed by Sleepy Joe Biden look small, possibly using frozen Russian assets in the West to fund Ukraines military.

The globalists are always worried about something. But I also saw a bit of hope, because a new sheriff is in town and hes not falling asleep at the wheel.