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I was impressed (by) the force of his convictions and by what he said. I don’t share his opinion on many topics, but I thought he was well-prepared and knew who he was talking to,
said Benedict Fontanet, a Swiss lawyer
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It’s absolute determination to ‘make America great again’ at the expense of the rest of the world,
said Agnes Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty InternationalI'll demand that interest rates drop immediately. And likewise, they should be dropping all over the world,
Trump said via video conference on Thursday (Jan 23).
If (hypothetically) Canadian oil were not available, many US refineries would struggle to find heavy crude elsewhere, and they might even stop operating in such a scenario. Historically, Venezuela had been a large producer of heavy crude, but Venezuela’s oil industry is a shadow of its former self,
Pavel Molchanov, an energy expert who is an investment strategy analyst at Raymond James, said in an email
It was at 40%, and I got it down to 21%, the corporate tax,
Trump saidYou've done a fantastic job but I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives, because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank,
Trump said during his virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland
If the price [of oil] came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately,
he claimed, arguing
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If we make a deal, we make a deal—you’ll get it.”
Addressing TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné, he statedThe EU does not take our farm products, does not take our cars, yet they send cars to us by the millions,
he argued, blaming European tariffs and restrictions for what he described as an imbalanced trade relationshipI'm also going to ask all NATO nations to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP, which is what it should have been years ago,
he saidThe United States has the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth. And we’re going to use it,
Trump said, promising “rapid approvals” for energy ventures
They’ve allowed other nations to take advantage of the US. We can’t allow that to happen anymore,
Trump saidWe’re going to be demanding respect from other nations,
Trump said at Davos, immediately pivoting to Canada
We’d like to see denuclearisation,
Trump said, citing conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first termThey took court cases with Apple, and they supposedly won a case that most people didn’t think was much of a case,
Trump saidIt was conceived of by people that were average students, less-than-average students,
Trump saidThat is an absolute killing field. Millions of soldiers are being killed,
Trump saidMy administration has also begun the largest deregulation campaign in history, far exceeding even the record-setting efforts of my last term,
Trump saidAs you probably know, I say: ‘You can always become a state. And then, if you are a state, we won’t have a deficit. We won’t have to tariff you,'
Trump saidThey say that there’s light shining all over the world since the election. And even countries that we aren’t particularly friendly with are happy because they understand there is a future, how great the future will be,
he said