The World Economic Forum may seem like a rather dry topic, but this moment of commentary by Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been making the rounds on social media and for good reason.
Lutnick is responding to a question about Trump’s interest in Greenland, but ends up offering an excellent lesson about the meaning of Trump’s ‘America First’ strategy.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
QUESTIONER: What I struggle more with is how you imagine others react to this. I mean, if you put yourself in the position of your Danish counterpart—who’s a proud Dane and a loyal executive of the Danish government’s position—how do you envision this going? How does this go down?
HOWARD LUTNICK: Well, I think you should start at a much higher level.
Okay. We are in Davos, at the World Economic Forum, and the Trump administration—and myself—we are here to make a very clear point.
Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy. It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export offshore, far-shore, find the cheapest labor in the world and the world is a better place for it.
