MICHAEL WALSH IN EUROPE Donald Trump Is Going to Davos, And the Elites Know Exactly Why That Matters.

Davos is gearing up for the World Economic Forum’s 56th annual meeting, running January 19 to 23

This year, there’s one thing hanging over that mountain like a storm cloud: self-appointed Emperor Donald Trump is coming.

He’s expected to arrive early in the week. He’s scheduled to speak on January 21, right in the middle of the forum. He will not be tucked away in a side room. He will be standing in front of the very people who believe they run the world.

That timing is not an accident.

This isn’t just another speech on a crowded agenda. Donald Trump is walking into the most insulated, self-congratulatory gathering on the planet.

He is doing the one thing Davos hates most. He is challenging the legitimacy of the room itself.

Unelected Rulers of the Globalist world

Davos is where unelected power meets to reassure itself that it knows better than voters.

It’s where global policies are discussed and applied by parasites who never have to knock on doors

The self-elected political elite appointed by shadowy figures never have to explain inflation to a family at the grocery store. They never have to justify why life keeps getting harder for everyone else. Meanwhile, they fly in on private jets to talk about ‘shared sacrifice.’

Trump has never pretended to respect that culture.

If he’s consistent, he won’t praise global governance or technocratic management. He won’t bow to international consensus.

He’ll say, flat out, that nation-states matter more than global institutions.

Governments are supposedly accountable to their own citizens. They are not accountable to forums, panels, or advisory bodies that answer to no one.

That alone will make the room bristle.

He’s likely to say what nobody at Davos wants to hear out loud. Globalism worked spectacularly well for the people sitting in those seats. It worked spectacularly badly for the people who weren’t invited.

He will tell them that factories didn’t disappear by accident and the middle classes didn’t go bankrupt by chance. That policy choices were made, deliberately, but it was the ordinary people who paid the price.

He’ll talk about borders when they want to talk about frameworks. He’ll talk about sovereignty when they want to talk about coordination. He’ll talk about voters when they want to talk about stakeholders.

Real costs paid by real people

And when energy comes up, he won’t play the moral performance game. He’ll frame it the way he always does, as a question of affordability, security, and national survival.

Not theoretical targets. Not long-term abstractions. Real costs, paid by real people, who don’t get to opt out.

That’s deeply uncomfortable in a room where consequences are always externalized.

The Blame Game

But the harshest part of what Trump is likely to say won’t be policy; it will be to direct the blame on the parasites of Western society,

He has always argued that populism didn’t come from ignorance; it came from betrayal. From elites who insulated themselves from the fallout of their decisions

They then act shocked when trust collapsed. From institutions that demanded obedience while offering nothing resembling accountability.

Direct Confrontation

Saying that anywhere gets attention. Saying it at Davos, to the architects and beneficiaries of the system themselves, is a direct confrontation.

This year’s theme is ‘A Spirit of Dialogue.’ Trump’s presence exposes how hollow that phrase really is.

Because real dialogue means listening to voices that reject the assumptions of the room entirely. And Davos has never been good at that.

Trump doesn’t represent consensus. He represents rejection of consensus.

He represents millions of people who believe the global order was built without their consent and maintained without their benefit.

That’s why this speech matters.

Not because he’ll convert the elites, he won’t. But, for once, the people who lecture the world about legitimacy, inclusion, and trust will have to sit still. Someone will tell them, to their faces, that they lost it.

And no number of panels, slogans, or carefully worded communiqués will make that moment disappear.

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