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Nobel Prize winner says Trump shot himself in foot at Davos: 'They humiliated him'

A Nobel Prize winner believes Donald Trump was left looking much less confident after his Davos speech. The president's speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland did not go as planned according to Paul Krugman, who says Trump failed in his aims to threaten Europe with financial sanctions. Th...

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Paul Krugman: “Donald Trump and his team clearly went to Davos determined to demean and insult their hosts. It was, one might say, a novel approach to diplomacy: ‘You’re pathetic, your societies and economies are falling apart, now give us Greenland.’” “And it worked about as well as you’d expect. Trump may have imagined that the Europeans would cower in the face of his wrath. Instead, they humiliated him. He dropped his latest tariff threats in…

Trump 0, Europe 1 - Paul Krugman

As I wrote yesterday, Donald Trump and his team clearly went to Davos determined to demean and insult their hosts. It was, one might say, a novel approach to